![]() OpenAI was launched as a research firm dedicated to building safe AI for the benefit of all humanity. But nothing has been settled and for now, with Altman in charge again though stripped of his board seat, it’s back to business as usual. Changes to the way the company is run are being considered. A shake-up on the board has brought in more experienced heads, in the shape of ex-chair of Twitter Bret Taylor and former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers. Eamon GallagherĪltman’s reinstatement late on Tuesday has taken some of the heat out of the drama - at least, for now. Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief executive, pictured in Melbourne in June. ![]() But tensions had been building inside the company for some time, as Altman’s ambition to turn OpenAI into Silicon Valley’s next tech powerhouse rubbed up against the company’s founding mission to put safety first. The four members of OpenAI’s board who threw Altman out have not explained the immediate cause, except to say that he had not been “consistently candid” in his dealings with them. It has also been on full display in the past week, as the OpenAI boss was first ejected from his job, then reinstated after the threat of a mass defection by staff of the San Francisco-based AI start-up. ![]() That jarring disparity has left many onlookers wondering why companies such as OpenAI are racing each other to be the first to build a potentially devastating new technology. ![]() In the past year, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has become the embodiment of a contradiction at the heart of artificial intelligence.īuoyed by the euphoria following the launch of the company’s AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT 12 months ago, the 38-year-old entrepreneur took his brand of Silicon Valley optimism on a global tour to meet heads of state and promote AI’s potential.īut at the same time, he has also sounded a warning: that advanced AI systems like the ones OpenAI hopes one day to build might lead to the extinction of the human race. ![]()
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