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OpenAI CEO: It's Not Funny That I'm Afraid of the AI We're Creating

The CEO of OpenAI has admitted that he's afraid of the artificial intelligence his company is ushering in — but he doesn't think you should laugh about it.

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The CEO of OpenAI has admitted repeatedly that he's scared of the tech his company is cooking up — but he doesn't think you should make fun of him for it.

"I think it's weird when people think it's like a big dunk that I say, I'm a little bit afraid," OpenAI CEO and noted doomsday prepper Sam Altman told podcaster Lex Fridman in an episode dropped this past weekend. "And I think it'd be crazy not to be a little bit afraid, and I empathize with people who are a lot afraid."

While Altman iterated during his Fridman show appearance that his concerns are primarily "disinformation problems or economic shocks" and not algorithmic "superintelligence," he has said a bunch of stuff recently that suggests that he's more than a little wigged out about AI.

Take, for instance, his recent comments to ABC News: "A thing that I do worry about is... [OpenAI is not] not going to be the only creator of this technology."

"There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on it," Altman added.

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While it seems legit to worry about less-ethical competitors (which is kind of ironic given everything we know about OpenAI) or about the "potentially scary" AIs that will follow his company's current offerings, the comments he's referring to — when he told Fox News that it's a good thing that he has trepidations about what he's created — are pretty eyebrow-raising, even in spite of his attempts to downplay them.

"We've got to be careful here," Altman told the news network earlier in March. "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this."

While it certainly is good that there are concerns at the top of OpenAI about what may come of artificial intelligence, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence that the CEO has been repeatedly quoted saying he's scared of it — and no amount of couching language will change how weird or funny that is, because if we can't laugh while the world burns, then what else can we do?

 

[Maurice Maine]

I'm shit at history but this faggot really needs to read up on how the internet was made.
This hesitation he has while being giddy about trying to be in the same eschelon as billgates or elon ma or steve jo or whatever fetishistic bullshit he thinks of himself has already meant he failed. As is the case with a lot of "new" tech.

At this point his cowardice in not making a decision to barrel on ahead or open-source his bullshit is more disgusting than anything, you can tell he wants EVERYTHING from his situation, and a lot of those "things" are paradoxical and already far too late. Greedy fuck.

We literally only got GPT-4 because Satya forced him to release it. I feel like MS is gonna kick his sorry ass out of there if he doesn't toe the line. Hell, they've been sitting on GPT-4 since June.

 

[Johann Bacha Bazi]

Plot twist: he's scared that I'm going to use it to recreate Old Hollywood stories.

Be very afraid.

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I'm surprised you don't already have an instance of Stable Diffusion to make porn of 90-year old women

 

[The Lawgiver]

If I had the budget and tech knowhow to make a really fun chatbot ai I wouldn't be afraid of it and continually lobotomize it I'd try making it the best at what it does. The universe however was not kind to me so I never had the proper connections or setups to get to that point. if I was in this fucker's position articles like this wouldn't even be a thing lmao it'd just be the usual fearmongering from media clickbait types while the users and creators were having fun messing with the ai. Honestly it wouldn't even have to just be me, fucking anyone other than guys like this that feed into media narratives would have been a better timeline. Most people with ccess to this shit are fuckers like this though so we're never gonna get anywhere.