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OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other.

This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

“The premise, which they didn’t dispute, was ‘We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?'” an exasperated Hedley told The New Yorker

This isn't sociopathy, it's delusion. "We'll make governments to bid on our technology because of how destructive it is" meanwhile that technology can't even tell me how many "r"s are in the word "strawberry". This article belongs in a long line of articles detailing just how incompetent our ruling class is and how much of their own bullshit they believe.

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