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Genuinely curious because I have no idea how any of this works... Would the founding documents actually count as proof of a lie? I feel like the defense could

Genuinely curious because I have no idea how any of this works... Would the founding documents actually count as proof of a lie? I feel like the defense could easily make the argument that the documents accurately represented their intent at the time, but as time went on they found that it made more sense to change. It seems like, if the founding documents were to be proof of a lie, you'd have to have corresponding proof that the documents were intentionally written to mislead people.

bbor 2y ago
Great point, and based on my amateur understanding you’re absolutely correct. I was mostly speaking so confidently because these founding documents in particular define the company as being founded to prevent exactly this. You’re right that Altman is/will sell it as an unexpected but necessary adaptation to external circumstances, but that’s a hard sell. Potentially not to a court, sadly, but definitely in the public eye. For example: We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions… We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. From 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.com/charter https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co... And this is the very first paragraph of their founding blog post, from 2015: OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/

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Genuinely curious because I have no idea how any of this works... Would the founding documents actually count as proof of a lie? I feel like the defense could

by jjulius 2y ago

bbor 2y ago
Great point, and based on my amateur understanding you’re absolutely correct. I was mostly speaking so confidently because these founding documents in particular define the company as being founded to prevent exactly this. You’re right that Altman is/will sell it as an unexpected but necessary adaptation to external circumstances, but that’s a hard sell. Potentially not to a court, sadly, but definitely in the public eye. For example: We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions… We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. From 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.com/charter https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co... And this is the very first paragraph of their founding blog post, from 2015: OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/