“Sam Altman: You Should Not Trust Sam Altman. The OpenAI CEO Says Large AI Models Are so Powerful That Control of Them Must Be Democratized to All People in the near Future. (Good Luck With That.)”, 2023-06-22 (; backlinks):
[video] On Sam Altman owning no equity in OpenAI, and his own personal motivations:
“One of the takeaways I’ve learned is that this concept of having enough money is not an idea that’s easy to get across to people. I have enough money. What I want more of is, like, an interesting life, impact; access to be in the conversation. So I still get a lot of selfish benefit from this. What else am I going to do with my time? This is really great. I cannot imagine a more interesting life than this one and a more interesting thing to work on.”
On whether the world should trust Sam Altman:
“You shouldn’t. No one person should be trusted here. I don’t have super voting shares. The board can fire me. I think that’s important. [We] think this technology, the benefits, the access to it, the governance of it, belongs to humanity as a whole. If this really works, it’s quite a powerful technology and you should not trust one company and certainly not one person.”