{"id":197404,"date":"2024-10-10T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-researcher-slams-openai-warns-it-will-become-the-most-orwellian-company-of-all-time"},"modified":"2024-10-10T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T00:22:27","slug":"ai-researcher-slams-openai-warns-it-will-become-the-most-orwellian-company-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-researcher-slams-openai-warns-it-will-become-the-most-orwellian-company-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the \u201cMost Orwellian Company of All Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-researcher-slams-openai-warns-it-will-become-the-most-orwellian-company-of-all-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last few months, the mask has really come off.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>OpenAI is far from its days <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-sleazy-company-creating-agi\" class=\"\">of being an altruistic, non-profit company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is now the face of a booming AI industry and is effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-reportedly-giving-up-non-profit\" class=\"\">for-profit in all but name<\/a>, steaming ahead with little regard for its technology\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-datacenters-worse\" class=\"\">environmental toll<\/a>, or for the potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/report-ai-jobs-apocalypse\" class=\"\">existential risks<\/a> it poses to society.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher, the worst is yet to come. In his assessment, OpenAI could soon take an even more dystopian pivot, \u00e0 la George Orwell\u2019s novel \u201c1984,\u201d by getting into the business of spying on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few months, the mask has really come off. OpenAI is far from its days of being an altruistic, non-profit company. It is now the face of a booming AI industry and is effectively for-profit in all but name, steaming ahead with little regard for its technology\u2019s environmental toll, or for the potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197404","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}