A group of high-level early employees who had glimpsed the fluidity and power of the technology behind ChatGPT left OpenAI to start a new company. Their exit sparked concerns that OpenAI is not prioritizing safety. Meanwhile, the success of ChatGPT drove a craze within the tech industry but also added fuel to existing apocalyptic fears. In this episode, reporter Ellen Huet examines the frenzy around AI, both its utopic dreams and visions of impending doom.
Episode three of Foundering: The OpenAI Story examines the frenzy around AI, both its utopian dreams and its visions of impending doom. Some people in the AI industry believe that an all-powerful computer intelligence would be good for humanity. Sam Altman describes a future in which AI ushers in a world of abundance. But others fear that advanced AI could spell catastrophe.
Both beliefs have powerful psychological effects on their adherents. When the consequences are on a galactic scale, everything else seems less important. And some experts argue that this extreme rhetoric is actually a dangerous distraction from the harms that AI is perpetuating today.
This episode is the first in a two-part story; the second half continues in episode four of Foundering.
The biggest story in tech is artificial intelligence, and the biggest story in AI is OpenAI. The company’s rapid progress and blazingly popular consumer products like ChatGPT have pushed tech giants to dump billions of dollars into an AI arms race. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has been dogged by persistent allegations of being manipulative, deceitful, and power hungry – even to the point of being fired by his own board. This season of Foundering takes listeners straight to the heart of the AI explosion: feuds, betrayals, billionaires, and the extinction of humanity…. maybe?
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Foundering is an award-winning, serialized podcast from the journalists at Bloomberg Technology. Each season, Foundering brings you inside a different high-stakes drama from the technology industry, where its companies are wielding unprecedented capital and power.
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