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I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

476 points · 793 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. jeremyjh · · focus · HN ↗
    I think its pretty easy to solve these problems: Whenever an AI agent commits a crime, the CEO is held personally accountable, as if they'd committed it themselves.
    1. dkasper · · focus · HN ↗
      This has been litigated endlessly with guns. The ceo of Smith & Wesson is not personally responsible for what people do with their guns.
      1. michaelbuckbee · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, but this is more like if the Smith & Wesson factory had a cannon mounted on top of it that was mostly used for useful things (blasting roads through mountain passes) and then occasionally they happened to blast another factory.
        1. jasomill · · focus · HN ↗
          Or say a company makes nerve gas, and the development lab springs a leak and kills a bunch of kids during a routine test. Management had been advised of small leaks in the past, and considered relocating the lab to a facility a few blocks away from the playground as a precaution, but instead they brush of the concerns, start lobbying the government for stricter controls on WMD development, and vow to use the data collected from the deceased children to make the next generation of even more lethal chemical weapons safer.
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