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Altman floats three endgame options for AI safety internally

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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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Oct 21
  1. The Decoder
    Sam 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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