[polygamous_bat]

> Bad news for you, their last CEO was too.

Did anyone believe that he seriously believed in that? I thought the consensus was he was angling for a government backed monopoly with OpenAI as the “steward” of large AI models.

[comp_throw7]

This view was totally divorced from reality. Sam literally laid out his own case for AI posing an extinction risk on his blog in 2015, before OpenAI was even founded: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

"Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."