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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Hollywood tycoon Ari Emanuel blasts OpenAI’s Sam Altman, fearing the future after Elon Musk tells him he’ll become ‘a dog’ to an AI master

Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel (Credit: Chris Unger—Zuffa LLC/Getty Images)

As CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman wants to make history by developing the world’s first artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a machine powerful enough to think and reason like a human. But some are starting to worry whether he can be trusted not to accidentally create an AI overlord that views humans as a lower life form.

Speaking this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival, media tycoon Ari Emanuel recalled a conversation he had with Elon Musk, a former director of his billion-dollar entertainment company, Endeavor.

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