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He reports that OpenAI's stated altruistic mission now appears to him as a mechanism for centralizing power and resources at imperial scale.
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He reports that OpenAI's stated altruistic mission now appears to him as a mechanism for centralizing power and resources at imperial scale.
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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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"Six years after my initial skepticism about OpenAI's, uh, altruism, I've come to firmly believe that OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of..."
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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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"...is Ilya Shutskoyer, who used to be the chief scientist. for OpenAI, okay? So we're going to read this passage together. Okay, so Alan,..."
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"...The New Yorker. He published a profile of St. Altman and OpenAI in which he says the same thing. Okay?"
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"It's a Stargate. These data centers, OpenAI, AI, it's designed to summon demons and aliens from the other dimensions."
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"Okay? Keep on going. A former OpenAI executive said the portals currently exist in the United States and China. I told you guys, China..."
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"...Because, you know, we're seeing some of these big companies like OpenAI and Anthropical sort of signing up to government military surveillance projects. What..."
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"So you look at companies like OpenAI, they don't make money selling chat services to people. But Son Altman seems to be very confident..."
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"...today is something called the AI bubble, right? These companies, Nvidia, OpenAI, when they, their AI products don't actually make any money."
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"...if you look at AI bubble, you've got companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, okay? Lots and lots of different companies."
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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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