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Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia

Big Talk In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for artificial general intelligence (AGI). During a lengthy interview with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, ex-OpenAI safety researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner claimed that before his time at the firm, he'd heard tell "from multiple people" that his erstwhile employer […]

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a striking claim about his ex-employer's plans for artificial general intelligence (AGI) — or, more specifically, how to make a bunch of money off it. During the same interview, the former researcherrevealed why he'd been fired from OpenAI earlier this year — because, as he explains it, human resources had taken issue with a memo he'd sent to company higher-ups warning about the Chinese Communist Party potentially stealing "key algorithmic secrets." HR apparently took issue with a line he'd included about "planning for AGI by 2027 to 2028 and not setting timelines for preparedness" and said that that projection was confidential, suggesting that sharing it constituted a leak.

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