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Sam Altman previews new AI model on Capitol Hill after cyber breach

The OpenAI CEO discussed a forthcoming artificial intelligence model with federal lawmakers as the cybersecurity debate over the advanced technology intensifies.
Politico Technology (US) yesterday News Military & security

Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries”

Sam Altman’s latest appearance on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best podcast covered everything from AGI and robotics to the The post Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries” appeared first on The New Stack .
The New Stack AI 2d ago News Agents & autonomy

When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde

An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticated Throughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A comet . A crow on the battlefield . A solar eclipse. A mutant livestock birth. Yet times move on. In the modern era, the leading harbinger of doom is literally any picture of the OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman , attached to a news story. You know it’s not
The Guardian 6d ago News Agents & autonomy

OpenAI says its technology hacked another company in 'unprecedented' event

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. “We are sharing...
The Hill Technology 8d ago News Military & security

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer […]
The Verge 12d ago News Children & education

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
TechCrunch 17d ago News EnvironmentFinance, VC & PE

A Top OpenAI Executive, Fidji Simo, Steps Down

Ms. Simo, who was Sam Altman’s second in command before taking a medical leave in April, will become a part-time adviser to the company.
NYT Technology 20d ago News Healthcare

California man with bipolar disorder says ChatGPT fueled delusions, led to self-harm in new lawsuit

July 1 (Reuters) - A California man sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, claiming the company's ChatGPT platform exacerbated his bipolar disorder due to a lack of safeguards for users with mental illness. Michael Lines, 34, sai ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1569#7488)
AI Incident Database 26d ago Incidents