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>>staran+(OP)
At the end of the day, we still don't know what exactly happened and probably, never will. However, it seems clear there was a rift between Rapid Commercialization (Team Sam) and Upholding the Original Principles (Team Helen/Ilya). I think the tensions were brewing for quite a while, as it's evident from an article written even before GPT-3 [1].

> Over time, it has allowed a fierce competitiveness and mounting pressure for ever more funding to erode its founding ideals of transparency, openness, and collaboration

Team Helen acted in panic, but they believed they would win since they were upholding the principles the org was founded on. But they never had a chance. I think only a minority of the general public truly cares about AI Safety, the rest are happy seeing ChatGPT helping with their homework. I know it's easy to ridicule the sheer stupidity the board acted with (and justifiably so), but take a moment to think of the other side. If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't you try to slow things down a bit?

Honestly, I myself can't take the threat seriously. But, I do want to understand it more deeply than before. Maybe, it isn't without substance as I thought it to be. Hopefully, there won't be a day when Team Helen gets to say, "This is exactly what we wanted to prevent."

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai...

>>shubha+B7
> Honestly, I myself can't take the threat seriously. But, I do want to understand it more deeply than before.

I very much recommend reading the book “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” from Nick Bostrom.

It is a seminal work which provides a great introduction into these ideas and concepts.

I found myself in the same boat as you do. I was seeing otherwise inteligent and rational people worry about this “fairy tale” of some AI uprising. Reading that book give me an appreciation of the idea as a serious intelectual excercise.

I still don’t agree with everything contained in the book. And definietly don’t agree with everything the AI doomsayers write, but i believe if more people would read it that would elevate the discourse. Instead of rehashing the basics again and again we could build on them.