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“OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing” by Zvi
Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman's very good TED Interview.
The FT detailed OpenAI's recent dramatic cutting back on the time and resources allocated to safety testing of its models.
In the interview, Chris Anderson made an unusually strong effort to ask good questions and push through attempts to dodge answering. Altman did a mix of giving a lot of substantive content in some places while dodging answering in others. Where he chose to do which was, itself, enlightening. I felt I learned a lot about where his head is at and how he thinks about key questions now.
The amicus brief backed up that OpenAI's current actions are in contradiction to the statements OpenAI made to its early employees.
There are also a few other related developments.
What [...]
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Outline:
(01:26) The GPUs Are Melting
(02:36) On OpenAI's Ostensive Open Model
(03:25) Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(04:18) What Even is AGI?
(05:19) The OpenAI AI Action Plan
(05:57) Copyright Confrontation
(07:43) The Ring of Power
(11:55) Safety Perspectives
(14:00) Autonomous Killer Robots
(15:15) Amicus Brief
(17:25) OpenAI Recklessly Races to Release
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First published:
April 15th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nnzb7prw2XC8cFhnP/openai-13-altman-at-ted-and-openai-cutting-corners-on-safety
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By LessWrongThree big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman's very good TED Interview.
The FT detailed OpenAI's recent dramatic cutting back on the time and resources allocated to safety testing of its models.
In the interview, Chris Anderson made an unusually strong effort to ask good questions and push through attempts to dodge answering. Altman did a mix of giving a lot of substantive content in some places while dodging answering in others. Where he chose to do which was, itself, enlightening. I felt I learned a lot about where his head is at and how he thinks about key questions now.
The amicus brief backed up that OpenAI's current actions are in contradiction to the statements OpenAI made to its early employees.
There are also a few other related developments.
What [...]
---
Outline:
(01:26) The GPUs Are Melting
(02:36) On OpenAI's Ostensive Open Model
(03:25) Other People Are Not Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(04:18) What Even is AGI?
(05:19) The OpenAI AI Action Plan
(05:57) Copyright Confrontation
(07:43) The Ring of Power
(11:55) Safety Perspectives
(14:00) Autonomous Killer Robots
(15:15) Amicus Brief
(17:25) OpenAI Recklessly Races to Release
---
First published:
April 15th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nnzb7prw2XC8cFhnP/openai-13-altman-at-ted-and-openai-cutting-corners-on-safety
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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