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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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So a Board member wrote a paper about focusing on safety above profit in AI development. Sam Altman did not take kindly to this concept and started pushing to fire her (to which end he may or may not have lied to other Board members to split them up). Sam gets fired for trying to fire someone for putting safety over profit. Everything exploded and now profit is firmly at the head of the table.
I like nothing about this version of events either.
I feel like this isn't surprising knowing about all the other stuff altman has done. Seems like yet another loss for the greater good in the name of profit.
What other stuff has he done? Genuinely curious.
Now what would the company do if the AI model started putting safety above profit (i.e. refusing to lie to profit the user (aka reducing market value))? How fucked are we if they create an AGI that puts profit above safety?
Entirely. We all die. The light cone is turned into the maximum amount of "profit" possible.
This is still better than a torment maximizer, which may come as some comfort to the tiny dollar bills made of the atoms that used to be you.
You get paperclip maximizer
https://terbium.io/2020/05/paperclip-maximizer/
So basically it's exactly what I expected and I'm not surprised in the slightest. Amazing how that works.
It's not too surprising considering they don't even have basic essential security features in 2023 like two-factor authentication. Absolutely pitiful.