As many, including this observer, continue to share with OpenAI all sorts of personal information, ideas we have, our attitudes and feelings and history…and more… the pressing question arises, do we have AI leadership that can be entrusted with this?
Can “The Future of AI” be something we can trust will be delivered with integrity, ethics, and “all that it can be” by the tech powers and the persons controlling them?
We seem to be putting into the OpenAI server-farm-archive more of our “history” than we ourselves actually can recall …during what seem like ever-more “personal” chats with OpenAI chatbots. Is that wise, given our experiences with social media platforms over the last decade?
Generally the conventional wisdom is that the so called TechBros are all about winning the King of the Kash Kontest.
Are there Tech Titan exceptions, and if so, who are they? And if it’s a matter of degree of trust, what’s the best we can expect? “Do No Evil” as Google once proclaimed was their guiding light? Until it wasn’t.
Here are two recent books looking at Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, as a person, and as one of the reigning leaders of AI advancement, and possibly the current king of the AI Hill.
Both of which are referred to in this recent New Yorker review.
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future? | The New Yorker
There’s also a review of these books by the NYTimes who has sued both OpenAI and Microsoft for “copyright infringement”.
Book Review: ‘Empire of AI,’ by Karen Hao; ‘The Optimist,’ by Keach Hagey - The New York Times