OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other.
This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”
I can think of like 20 better words to use here.
Bourgeois stenographers: “is this essentialized mental illness entirely divorced from material conditions?”
Marxists: “this is the most average type of guy who wins at capitalism”