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Just spot checking: did anyone comment on this paper when it was published? Did any media outlet say “hey, a member of the OpenAI board is criticizing OpenAI an
by BryantD 3y ago
Just spot checking: did anyone comment on this paper when it was published? Did any media outlet say “hey, a member of the OpenAI board is criticizing OpenAI and showing a conflict of interest?” Did any of the people who cover AI (Zvi, say) discuss this as a problem?
These are serious questions, not gotchas. I don’t know the answers, and I think having those answers would make it easier to evaluate whether or not the paper was a significant conflict of interest. The opinions we have formed now are shaped by our biases about current events.
It didn’t make HN.
- dmix 3y agoGambling that no one reads academics papers by fringe Open AI board members no one has heard of before is probably a safe bet but it's still a risk if some doomer AI people on Twitter pumped it up, some journo discovered the tweets and sells it as "concern in the industry including one of OpenAI's own board" and it got swept up in some lawyer-style grilling by Congress which Sam just had to go through.
- triplebankshot 3y agoWho cares if the paper was covered in the media or not? Think tanks write policy papers for regulators, not HN. And it's the regulators that Sam was worried about. From the article: > Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company, particularly at a time, he added, when the Federal Trade Commission was investigating OpenAI over the data used to build its technology.