OpenAI has had a rough couple of weeks. It imploded, then un-imploded in a fast-moving social media soap opera. Elon Musk, the lead benefactor and a co-founder of the organisation (who quit in 2018), tweeted about Board Member Ilya Sutskever: ‘Something scared Ilya enough to fire Sam [Altman CEO]. What was it?’ At the recent UK Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit, Musk also said, ‘AI could kill us all.’ So, we should be paying attention.
OpenAI is a US-based not-for-profit research organisation founded in 2015 to collaboratively build ‘value for everyone rather than shareholders’ through the development of AI. It was established to share ideas and technology with other technology companies for the benefit of mankind. That seems nice. I suppose technology has been very handy for those sections of humanity that can afford it.
