Just over 10 years ago, Sam Altman said this statement:
“AI will probably, like, most likely sort of lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.”
Propelled by machine learning techniques, OpenAI recently closed the largest ever largest private tech funding deal, valuing the company at $300 billion.
One of OpenAI’s recent AI models, o3, sabotaged its own shutdown mechanisms in a testing environment, a smoking gun that these AIs are not being developed to be safe or controllable.
