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There's a simple explanation: he believes what he said.

If he believed what he said, why would he put the thing on the internet with plugins? Why would he be helping to secure funding to build even more powerful models?

If he believed it was truly dangerous, I don't think he'd be working for a company that is advertising they are actually pursuing super-intelligence ?

Not saying you're wrong, but there is definitely some very noticeable dissonance in his messaging and in his actions.

I imagine he thinks OpenAI can get superintelligence right, and that someone else would get it wrong.

You're right that there's some dissonance there, however. Especially since three of the leading labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind) were _all_ founded on the premise that they had to be the ones to get superintelligence right because the risks were so high.

He's said in his interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, that he wants to get AI in front of people as fast as possible to give us the longest amount of time possible to start to adapt to it.

I think he wants to scare people a little in a somewhat controlled way to onramp us to this new reality as fast as possible.

I'm not trying to be over cynical here, but what someone says and what someone does are entirely different things.

We want to be the ones who win the race to agi. Not somebody like Russia

It’s also simple that he needed moat

I think there's something to the arguments that regulation will benefit OpenAI.

However, they shouldn't be overstated. OpenAI has had the obviously best LLMs for over 4 years now. They aren't a flash in the pan.

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