American billionaire Elon Musk said that the potential risks of artificial intelligence are “so great” that OpenAI, the most powerful artificial intelligence company in the world currently, must reveal the reason for the dismissal of its CEO, Sam Altman.
OpenAI, which launched its generative AI platform ChatGPT a year ago, announced the dismissal of Sam Altman after criticism from the board that he had not been “candid.”
In response to a post by former Yammer CEO David Sachs, Musk said, “Given the risks and power of advanced artificial intelligence, the public should know why the OpenAI board made such a radical decision” to fire Sam Altman.
Elon Musk is a former member of the OpenAI board of directors, but left the company in 2018, due to a conflict of interest with Tesla.
In an interview with CNBC Six months ago, Musk said he became interested in the potential impact of OpenAI on society.
Last July, Musk launched his long-awaited startup in the field of artificial intelligence, “XAI,” which includes a team of engineers from the same companies that Musk hopes to compete with, as part of his attempt to create an alternative to the “GBT Chat” platform.
Reasons for Altman’s ouster from OpenAI
And according toBusiness InsiderOne possible reason for Altman’s ouster is growing tension among the company’s leadership over the risks that artificial intelligence poses to humanity.
Altman has aggressively sought funding to expand technology development within the company, while several other company board members have called for more to be done to mitigate potential threats.
For example, Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder of OpenAI who played a role in Altman’s firing, prefers to proceed more cautiously, given the potential for AI to harm society.
2023-11-19 20:32:16
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