Sam Altman Comments on AI Messaging and OpenAI Positioning
OpenAI CEO addresses industry messaging on risks and outlines platform strategy.
Andrew Curran shared an interview clip of Sam Altman saying the AI industry has not done a very good job with messaging. Steven Adler replied that the issue is not messaging because the risks are real on their merits. Trevor Levin asked why Altman discussed x-risk more when founding OpenAI as a nonprofit than now. Jeffrey Ladish and Nikola Jurkovic posted that the communication difficulty follows from expert views on extinction risks versus potential gains. Altman also stated OpenAI aims to function more as a platform than a product company.
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8 postsSam Altman on how he feels the industry has not done a very good job with messaging.
AI's "comms problem" is downstream of: (1) if AI goes wrong, then it's likely all of humanity will die, (2) if AI goes right, it's likely we'll end up in a world inconceivably better than the current one, and (3) AI will plausibly go wrong (many AI leaders place >10%…
Sam Altman on how he feels the industry has not done a very good job with messaging. https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2091525869638434945
OpenAI does not want to become the application layer of AI; it wants to be the platform that other application companies build on. "I think we should be more of a platform company than a product company. We will build products, of course. What I think most people want is a…
AI's "comms problem" is downstream of: (1) if AI goes wrong, then it's likely all of humanity will die, (2) if AI goes right, it's likely we'll end up in a world inconceivably better than the current one, and (3) AI will plausibly go wrong (many AI leaders place >10%…
Sam Altman on how he feels the industry has not done a very good job with messaging. https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2091525869638434945
@AndrewCurran_ I really hope he was asked the follow-up of “what odds do you put on ~destroying the world?” (!) Calling it a messaging issue IMO is just wrong. The details are scary on their merits; it is virtuous to communicate honestly; and yes that results in people…
Question for people who think the AI companies are doomsaying for profit-motivated reasons: Why did Sam Altman talk about x-risk much more frequently when founding OpenAI (as a nonprofit), whereas now that it's a $1T company he's basically saying the same talking points as you?
Sam Altman on how he feels the industry has not done a very good job with messaging. https://twitter.com/davidsenra/status/2091525869638434945
