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Science Fiction “Hugely Shapes OpenAI’s Imagination And Where They’re Going,” Author Karen Hao Says
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is "deeply obsessed" with the 2013 film Her, according to technology journalist Karen Hao.
“Science fiction hugely shapes OpenAI’s imagination and where they’re going,” Hao said during a discussion Tuesday of her bestselling new book, Empire of AI, hosted by the Pulitzer Center in New York. Her book also traces the development of OpenAI, which began as a well-intentioned non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk before turning into a commercial entity worth billions of dollars and funded by Microsoft. “If we we allow this to happen 100,000-times-fold, if we really amplify and support this work, that is how we can get this trajectory of air development to turn from a more imperial approach, and top-down, ‘we just say whatever we want and it goes’ to a more broad-based, democratically beneficial version of AI,” Hao said.
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