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The reported internal discussion pairs ambitious safety ideas with a hard reality: coordinating with rivals is difficult while everyone races toward an IPO.
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Sam Altman told OpenAI staff that one approach to AI safety could involve merging the biggest AI labs into a single organization. But with OpenAI and Anthropic racing toward IPOs, coordinating with rivals could prove difficult. Full story:Read original on X
new: @theinformation takes u inside Altman discussion re proposals for how the industry wants to do safety: an IAEA for AI a CERN for AI / merger of labs (i.e. @demishassabis circa 2017) and 'the Eliezer plan' (i.e. @allTheYud)Read original on X
so Sam Altman apparently told OpenAI employees that there are possibly THREE endgames for AI safety: 1. an international nuclear-style watchdog 2. merge all major labs into a giant org 3. one company achieves RSI and gets so powerful it can literally “melt everyone else’s GPUs.” and he called the 3rd option “terrible.” crazy that we’re even at this point rn.Read original on X
OpenAI's Altman floats merging top AI labs for safety
OpenAI's Altman floats merging top AI labs for safety
Altman floats merging top AI labs for safety
Altman floats AI watchdog, lab merger, or single winner
Altman floats AI watchdog, lab merger, or single winner
Altman floats AI watchdog, lab merger, or single winner
Altman floats AI watchdog, lab merger, or single winner
Altman floats AI watchdog, lab merger, or single winner
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats global watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for safety
Altman floats watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for AI safety
Altman floats watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for AI safety
Altman floats watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for AI safety
Altman floats watchdog, lab merger, or single winner for AI safety
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It would be a second AI lab claiming a result against the same decades-old complexity conjecture.
One claimed result would show the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false, a central conjecture in complexity theory.
Businesses can automate more office work when a cheaper model scores the same on real tasks.
Price cuts are pulling large AI spending contracts away from Anthropic and intensifying competition between the labs.