Altman floats three endgame options for AI safety internally
What happened
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman presented three paths for AI safety to staff internally last week, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. One of them is to create a body modelled on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enforce safety standards. Only that option has been reported publicly so far; the details of the other two have not been disclosed, and the story is still developing.
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- The DecoderSam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else's GPUs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled after the IAEA, a merger of the major labs into one entity, or a single company so powerful it could shut down everyone else's compute. He called the last option "terrible."
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