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Sam Altman is either running for US government soon, or is looking for some post in the UN. just look up how many heads of government he has visited last month


It’s insane to me that he of all people is doing all this talking. He has massive conflicts of interest that should be abundantly obvious


> It’s insane to me that he of all people is doing all this talking. He has massive conflicts of interest that should be abundantly obvious

This might also give evidence that OpenAI has interests that it has not yet publicly talked about. Just some food for thought: which kind of possible interests that OpenAI might have are consistent with Sam Altman's behaviour?


>which kind of possible interests that OpenAI might have are consistent with Sam Altman's behaviour?

Securing a government enforced monopoly on large language models?


That’s a long shot at best. It would be much more lucrative to lock up some DOD spend.


It means he's marketing.

He was to ensure lawmakers overlook the immediate danger of AI Systems and focus on only conceptual danger


He is pursuing regulatory capture. Capitalist playbook.




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