Inside OpenAI, a rift between billionaires and altruistic researchers unravelled over the future of artificial intelligence
In the past week, a chaotic battle has played out at one of Silicon Valley's foremost tech companies over the future of artificial intelligence. OpenAI's mission is referenced repeatedly in company documents, in interviews, on stage and as Altman himself travelled the world, warning about the power generative AI would one day have. According to the New York Times, one person at a company meeting on the Friday afternoon that Altman was dismissed recounted Sutskever arguing the dismissal was "necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making artificial intelligence beneficial to humanity". Swisher reported that the key tension was between Altman and Toner, whose position on the board had been focused on safety and "deep thinking around the long-term risks" of AI. Toner had recently co-authored a paper on AI policy that discussed private sector signalling, which some have interpreted as suggesting the release of ChatGPT sparked "a race to the bottom" among OpenAI's competitors.
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