The better reason to stop taking Altman at his word is on the subject of OpenAI building AGI “for the benefit of humanity”. Now that he’s restructuring the com

The better reason to stop taking Altman at his word is on the subject of OpenAI building AGI “for the benefit of humanity”. Now that he’s restructuring the company to be a normal for-profit corp, with a handsome equity award for him, we should assume the normal monopoly-grabbing that we see from the other tech giants. If the dividend is simply going to the shareholder (and Altman personally) we should be much more skeptical about baking these APIs into the fabric of our society. The article is asinine; of course a tech CEO is going to paint a picture of the BHAG, the outcome that we get if we hit a home run. That is their job, and the structure of a growth company, to swing for giant wins. Pay attention to what happens if they hit. A miss is boring; some VCs lose some money and nothing much changes.