The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned to discover the extent of the promises that Altman had made to Microsoft for which technologies it would get access to in return for its investment. The terms of the deal didn’t align with what they had understood from Altman. If AI safety issues actually arose in OpenAI’s models, they worried, those commitments would make it far more difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the models’ deployment. Amodei’s contingent began to have serious doubts about Altman’s honesty. Courtesy of Penguin Press Buy This Book At: Amazon Bookshop.org Books-a-Million Penguin Random House If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. “We’re all pragmatic people,” a person in the group says. “We’re obviously raising money; we’re going to do commerc ... Read full article.