OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman opened up about Elon Musk’s feud with him and his view of how regulations related to artificial intelligence (AI) development should be framed.
Altman appeared on an episode of The Free Press’ “Honestly with Bari Weiss” podcast that was released Thursday and was asked by Weiss about why Musk has publicly criticized him over AI safety concerns and sued to block OpenAI from creating a capped for-profit corporate structure after initially being founded as a non-profit.
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but cut ties with the company in 2018 after he was unable to persuade its other leaders to put him in charge of a for-profit OpenAI entity or merge the company with Tesla. Weiss noted that Musk has likened Altman to the “Little Finger” character who was an antagonist in the “Game of Thrones” series and that the xAI founder said he doesn’t trust Altman to lead a company that controls the world’s most powerful AI.
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