Sam Altman is now talking to the White House about decelerating AI (twitter.com)

Not sure how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing.

... and guarantee the bogeyman is going to kick our puppies, or whatever? Hah!

“Oh no AI is totally getting too powerful! White House must intervene!

…pls invest more money”

Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.

Losing the race? Get your political buddies to help “level” the playing field!

I doubt he plans to convince Xi Jinping to decelerate too, so really this is talking to the Whitehouse about banning Chinese models.

That can’t be good.

This is the guy, if I'm not mistaken, who was fired for telling different groups people different and contradictory lies depending on what he needed them to believe. And now he's telling a reporter about what he's been telling the whitehouse, so he could be lying to the reporter, lying to the whitehouse or lying to both.

I don't think open-weight models are what motivated these specific comments. It's a way of deflecting OpenAI's failure with HuggingFace/etc as a natural consequence of powerful AI instead of a specific problem with OpenAI's recklessness.

Ah - the "pull the ladder up after you" strategy.

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