I guess: "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"?
I guess: "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"?
OpenAI renounced being open source. Don't let the name fool you.
AI being tuned to be "safe" by an exceedingly small set of humans is the thing we should be afraid of. It's the effective altruism effect: if you bombard people enough with "safety" and "alignment" speak, they will look past the fact that you're mainly interested in being a monopoly. My bigger conspiracy theory is that Bill Gates getting behind "AI alignment" is a calculated move to get people to look past Microsoft's unilateral involvement.
We know what their immediate goals are: to make as much money as possible. The only question is what their longer-term goals are.
The employees are usually they are "in on the message". All you have to do is get your employees to believe the message. This is easy when the company is growing exponentially. CEO's word is gospel.
There is probably a lot of political pressure on OpenAI to be as closed as possible. Remember the US government has banned Nvidia from exporting A100/H100 to China/Russia. Those are the same chips OpenAI uses for both training and inference.