‘Reckless Race for Dominance’: Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?

June 5, 2024
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?       From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance,” The Washington Post.       The members [nine current and former OpenAI employees] say […]

I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?

 

 

 

From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance,” The Washington Post.

 

 

 

The members [nine current and former OpenAI employees] say OpenAI, which started as a nonprofit research lab and burst into public view with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, is putting a priority on profits and growth as it tries to build artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., the industry term for a computer program capable of doing anything a human can.

They also claim that OpenAI has used hardball tactics to prevent workers from voicing their concerns about the technology, including restrictive nondisparagement agreements that departing employees were asked to sign.

The group published an open letter on Tuesday calling for leading A.I. companies, including OpenAI, to establish greater transparency and more protections for whistle-blowers.

 

Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?

 

Source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/technology/openai-culture-whistleblowers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0.14si.x2xKxtk6CMe5&smid=url-share

 

 

Featured Image: Group of multicultural people women and men covering their ears do not want to listen each other. Photo 121498857 © Kiosea39 | Dreamstime.com

 

 

 

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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