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The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype
Fear, The Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype
In another very recent interview, this one with MIT’s Technology Review, Altman claimed that AGI agents are on their way (again without presenting evidence that historically extremely difficult problems are close to being solved): He has innoculated himself against the charge that the big problems (poverty, climate science) aren’t strictly technical, but done nothing to actually address them, and entirely ignored the potential costs of the technology (to the environment, to the species, etc) Altman has been honing this formula literally for years, spinning a heady mixture of mysticism, apocalyptic warning, and speculative exaltation and humility, all the while innoculating himself against great fears while hinting at vast fortunes to be made:
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