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Jiang identifies an origin arc in which OpenAI began as a protective AGI project to avert existential risk, but argues it became an empire project once that mission scaled into platform power.
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Mission Drift
Jiang identifies an origin arc in which OpenAI began as a protective AGI project to avert existential risk, but argues it became an empire project once that mission scaled into platform power.
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"So, um, this book is mainly about OpenAI, which is also, uh, the most important artificial intelligence company in the world right now, because..."
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"First, the mission centralized talent by relying them around a grand ambition, exactly in the way John McCarthy did with his coining of the..."
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"So again, let's start off as a idealistic mission, but now it's main focus is to become an empire. There are three ways in..."
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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