AXIOS June 3, 2024
Making AI safe, once a consensus goal for the industry, has become an ideological battleground.
Why it matters: Like “election integrity” in politics, everyone says they support “AI safety” — but now the term means something different depending on who’s saying it.
Driving the news: The noisy departure of the head of OpenAI’s “superalignment” team, charged with limiting any harm from advanced AI, reignited a long-running Silicon Valley debate on AI safety.
- Critics say the industry’s push to popularize AI is eclipsing its promises to develop the technology responsibly.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long argued, and now most AI makers agree, that the best way to surface and defuse AI’s many potential misuses is to put it into...
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