{"id":176952,"date":"2023-11-28T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/contrary-to-reports-openai-probably-isnt-building-humanity-threatening-ai"},"modified":"2023-11-28T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T14:23:34","slug":"contrary-to-reports-openai-probably-isnt-building-humanity-threatening-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/contrary-to-reports-openai-probably-isnt-building-humanity-threatening-ai","title":{"rendered":"Contrary to reports, OpenAI probably isn\u2019t building humanity-threatening AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtAIh9KSnjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Has OpenAI invented an AI technology with the potential to \u201cthreaten humanity\u201d? From some of the recent headlines, you might be inclined to think so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/openai-made-an-ai-breakthrough-before-altman-firing-stoking-excitement-and-concern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Information<\/a> first reported last week that several OpenAI staff members had, in a letter to the AI startup\u2019s board of directors, flagged the \u201cprowess\u201d and \u201cpotential danger\u201d of an internal research project known as \u201cQ*.\u201d This AI project, according to the reporting, could solve certain math problems \u2014 albeit only at grade-school level \u2014 but had in the researchers\u2019 opinion a chance of building toward an elusive technical breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s now debate as to whether OpenAI\u2019s board ever received such a letter \u2014 The Verge cites a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/22\/23973354\/a-recent-openai-breakthrough-on-the-path-to-agi-has-caused-a-stir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a> suggesting that it didn\u2019t. But the framing of Q* aside, Q* in actuality might not be as monumental \u2014 or threatening \u2014 as it sounds. It might not even be new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has OpenAI invented an AI technology with the potential to \u201cthreaten humanity\u201d? From some of the recent headlines, you might be inclined to think so. Reuters and The Information first reported last week that several OpenAI staff members had, in a letter to the AI startup\u2019s board of directors, flagged the \u201cprowess\u201d and \u201cpotential danger\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}