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At the center of the ongoing debate surrounding AI and its future are two men, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. And if you haven’t been following, they aren’t exactly in alignment.
They started off as friends and business partners. In fact, Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015. But over the years, Musk grew increasingly frustrated with OpenAI until he finally resigned from the board in 2018. That feud escalated this past year when Musk sued Altman and OpenAI on multiple occasions to try to prevent the company from launching a for-profit arm of the business, a structure that Musk claims is never supposed to happen in OpenAI. He also argues that changing its structure in this way might even be “illegal.”
On the one hand, this is a very complex disagreement. To understand every single detail of it, you probably need a law degree and special expertise in American tax law. But you don’t need a degree or specialization to understand that, at its heart, this feud is about something much bigger and more existential than the business model of OpenAI, although that’s extremely important.
This is really a fight over who will ultimately be in control of a technology that some say, if used incorrectly, could very well make human beings obsolete.
Here to tell his side of the story today is Sam Altman.
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