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Sources:

The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d

Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/rationality-common-interest-of-many-causes

Unfriendly Artificial Intelligence https://www.lesswrong.com/w/unfriendly-artificial-intelligence

Paperclip maximizer https://www.lesswrong.com/w/paperclip-maximizer-1

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-08/openai-ceo-sam-altman-s-twitter-feud-with-ai-doomer-eliezer-yudkowsky-explained

Decoding Intentions: Artificial Intelligence and Costly Signals https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/decoding-intentions/

Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67484455

AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/

Previously:

Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script (2023) https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/18/pivot-to-ai-replacing-sam-altman-with-a-very-small-shell-script/

Pivot to AI: Microsoft looks into taking over Torment Nexus development (2023) https://amycastor.com/2023/11/21/pivot-to-ai-microsoft-looks-into-taking-over-torment-nexus-development/

Vox: Arts funding is an outrage! Averting AI doom is much more effective altruism https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/

Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/

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