AI Corporates

To Reboot your OpenAI Company press CTRL + ALTman + DELETE

So get this straight: OpenAi decides to become a for-profit company now
The CTO, head of research, and VP of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced
Sam Altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day

How it started …
How it’s going …

And what comes Next …

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See below some posts by the community to get the pulse of the situation:

GPT-5 Also decided to leave OpenAI!

view original by @JacquesThibs

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Sam Altman as a Rogue AGI

“And after the autonomous agent was found to be deceptive and manipulative, OpenAI tried shutting it down, only to discover that the agent had disabled the off-switch.” (reference to the failed Boardroom Coup)

OpenAI’s creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he’d stay durably aligned to those goals.

Originals by @AISafetyMemes and @MattyGlessias

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Sam Altman claiming no financial motive for his OpenAI role

(*Spontaneous round of applause*)

2023: Sam Altman claims no financial motive for his OpenAI role.

*Spontaneous round of applause* pic.twitter.com/LgvRjudgVd

— Ori Nagel ⏸️ (@ygrowthco) September 27, 2024

This did not age well

Sam Altman on May 16, 2023:

"I have no equity in OpenAI."

"I'm doing this because I love it."pic.twitter.com/Ks1tRGoTKu

— Smoke-away (@SmokeAwayyy) September 26, 2024

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Sam said …

• Sam said the board should be able to fire him, then…
• Sam said he’d give 20% of compute for superalignment, then…
• Sam said AI regulation was important, then…
• Sam said checks and balances on his power were important, then…
• Sam said the safest way to build ASI was to start now, before a compute overhang,
  then started raising trillions to build the compute himself…
• Sam said for safety reasons, OpenAI should be controlled by a non-profit, free from commercial pressures, then…
• Sam said he wasn’t doing it for the money, then…
• Sam said… ….

The bottomline

• The nonprofit — a for profit.
• Profit caps — lifted.
• Coup plotters — dealt with.
• Mask — off.

view original by @AISafetyMemes 🔗

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Scoop: Sam Altman is planning to take equity in OpenAI for the first time.
It’s part of a corporate restructure which will also see the non-profit which currently governs OpenAI turn into a minority shareholder.
Reuters Article

view original by @DavidSKrueger🔗

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It can be lonely being the head of the family

Lol…but it’s truly weird…they all started together

view original by @Dcryptopioneer

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For some reason this reminded me of :

This is the classic example from 1930 of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. The original photo was made in 1930. Yezhov was executed in 1940, so all photos of Stalin (he liked this one) after that airbrushed out Yezhov.

Never a boring day at OpenAI

More from the OpenAI insiders themselves

Big news: instead of racing, China takes the lead on issuing restrictive new AI regulations

And the new regulations come into effect just one month from now, on August 15, 2023.

“So few Westerners seem to understand that Xi Jinping Thought and the CCP was never going to permit an anarchic, reckless, headlong rush towards AGI capabilities.

In terms of AI X risk, the US is the danger.” – Geoffrey Miller

“Who could have guessed that one of the most oppressive and censorious regimes might not want their tech companies racing ahead with unprecedented uncontrollable technology?” – Connor Leahy

"There is more regulation on selling a sandwich to the public than to develop potentially lethal technology that could kill every human on earth."@NPCollapse stresses the significance of regulating the development of AI.

Watch here: https://t.co/SBOOaTASeb#AI #TheInnerView pic.twitter.com/KLCtsRWPU9

— The InnerView (@TheInnerViewTRT) March 29, 2024

Big oil companies use the same arguments as big AI companies.
This was originally a climate change comic and it’s crazy how little it had to change to make it work.

• That’s easy: money is the only reality.
• It’s fun building ai. Why do you hate fun?
• I can afford to insulate myself from a flaming hellplanet.
• If i don’t cause human extinction, someone else will.
• I’m just doing my fiduciary duty for investors.
• Ah, a way to control something way smarter will come along any day now. Any… Day… Now…
• Actually, i’m deeply traumatized, but i’m caught up in an unstoppable corporate machine. Please help!
• By building al, i’m helping people live. Until they don’t anymore.

OpenAI was hacked in April 2023 and did not disclose this to the public or law enforcement officials, raising questions of security and transparency pic.twitter.com/o60W9c1z8U

— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) July 5, 2024