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OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other.

This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”

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[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Isn't pitting governments against each other pretty standard ghoulish porky behavior anyway? Like within the us companies will openly court concessions/incentives from local/state governments under threat of pulling up stakes and moving to somewhere that will. Billionaires say this all the time about being taxed and threatening to move between states or even out of the country. But because this guy isn't wily enough to not describe the whole process out loud to people, now it's something new?

Altman, the reporting described, casted himself as an Oppenheimer-like figure. While the driving physicist behind the invention of the atomic bomb used “impassioned appeals about saving the world from the Nazis to persuade physicists to uproot their lives,” it wrote, “Altman leverages fears about the geopolitical stakes of his technology"

Ah so the only difference is that these dipshits think they're making skynet so it has national security implications I guess?