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Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
His boundless ambition is putting AI, and the world, on a dangerous path.
In this light, it’s worth revisiting Altman’s congressional testimony in May of 2023, shortly after ChatGPT had captured the world’s attention. Not content to just quote his congressional testimony about the irrelevance of money to his motivational structure, they circulated the video of it. Though Altman (wisely) wouldn’t use this term for it, I’d say it boils down to accelerationism —the idea that, when it comes to technological change, and progress in AI in particular, faster is better.
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