The Schism That Toppled Sam Altman
I spoke with my colleagues Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel this afternoon about the tensions at the heart of the AI community, and how Sam Altman’s firing may ironically entrench the power of a tech giant.
An Enabling Mantra
For a while earlier this year, Sam Altman was everywhere. As the head of OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT, he quickly became an emissary of the future of the technology. He appeared before Congress and foreign heads of state to discuss how AI would reshape society. As recently as last week, he was hyping up the future of his company…