Just read this New Yorker piece and… yeah, I’m getting increasingly uneasy about the direction OpenAI is heading under Sam Altman.
OpenAI was supposed to be about benefiting humanity, not becoming the next trillion-dollar tech empire. The whole capped-profit thing already felt like a weird compromise, but now there’s talk of removing the cap entirely? And then there’s the recent gutting of the superalignment team, which was literally supposed to be making sure AI doesn’t go off the rails. That doesn’t inspire confidence.
Altman’s got his hands in everything from custom AI hardware with Jony Ive to massive data centers in the UAE. Cool projects, sure, but it’s starting to feel like OpenAI is just chasing scale and market dominance rather than safety or transparency.
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Can he talk without sounding like his voice is falling off a cliff?
Idk, maybe not. I’ve given up caring much about anything. Seems like we’re fully immersed in the bad times and more than half the country is cheering it on / doesn’t care
Ironically the only thing that can probably keep him in check is him falling out of favor with Trump