Why should we trust AI company leaders? Sam Altman was quoted as saying, "We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency." Does that sound like someone who considers safety a high priority?
So you still trust OpenAI after Sam Altman said, "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model – but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes about 20 years of life – and all the food you consume during that time," and after he said, "We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency."
I trust him more after those two statements, yes. One would need to be an especially ridiculous populist to misinterpret those statements in a way where one would place less trust in him as a result.
I did negatively update based on reports of colleagues saying he has a tendency to be deceptive, though.
I agree. I would also say America is the way it's always been. With good and bad. America is not homogeneous. It is not simple. It is complex. It has and have always had, Neo-Nazis, and human rights champions. Poverty and wealth. Amazing educational institutes, and schools where kids stab each other. Conspiracy theorists, and smart reasonable people.
Reducing America to one simple statement is not possible.
