AI Doomers Had Their Big Moment

OpenAI’s Misaligned Superaligners
> they had undeniably good intentions
> but companies, economies, nations, are built on compromise
> leadership is forced to make those decisions sometimes
Counterfactual
> Jan and Superalignment team were listened to
> 4o release was delayed to 2025
> what would have happened?
> Elevenlabs had professional q... See more

The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
