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Imagine having a mission of “ensure[ing] that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity” while also believing that it can only be trusted in the hands of the few

> A lot of people around OpenAI in the early days thought AI should only be in the hands of a few trusted people who could “handle it”.

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He's very clearly stating that trusting AI to a few hands was an old, naiive idea that they have evolved from. Which establishes their need to keep evolving as the technology matures.

There is a lot to criticize about OpenAI and Sama, but this isn't it.

To the benefit of OpenAI. I think LLMs would still exist, but we wouldn't have access to them.

Whether they are a net positive or a net negative is arguable. If it's a net negative, then unleashing them to the masses was maybe the danger itself.

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