Unless his ultimate goal is to leave earth to our AI powered overlords, “AI” is absolutely meaningless if the planet is uninhabitable for humans.
I think he enjoys being powerful like any human but has a genuine care for how AI could improve humanity and the world for all humans. He does see what OpenAI is doing as a "Manhattan Project", in which the technology has a tremendous amount of inherent risks, but it's better they proceed with the greatest caution and make steps towards international cooperation so that AGI doesn't emerge in the wrong hands. Since the tech is inevitable, it is best it doesn't deploy itself into the world without great disasters occurring on its release.
As for the 7 trillion dollar thing, I don't think he's serious about it, as in he doesn't expect to get the money in the same way he'd expect to get 10-20 billion for OpenAI if fundraising. I think he's using the 7T figure as somewhat of a marketing tactic to elucidate the world on the compute build up that will be necessary. He probably believes that in a few years, 7 trillion will be spent to get to the gigaflops necessary for ASI. He probably feels its best to deploy the crazy number now so people are generally aware of the scale he anticipates for when AI really gets going in 1-2 years.
>Can you please not post like this?
OK, I wont