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☆ AI is threatening Americans’ jobs. Could guaranteed income provide a safety net?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

That idea of guaranteed income is receiving renewed interest as AI becomes an increasing threat to Americans’ livelihoods. As more Americans’ jobs are increasingly at risk due to the threat of AI, Tubbs and other proponents of guaranteed income say this could be one solution to help provide a safety net and cushion the expected blow AI will have on the labor market. “Then, when we have to deal with that job displacement, we’re better positioned to do so.”Silicon Valley’s infatuation with guaranteed incomeThe idea of a guaranteed income is not new. AFP/Getty ImagesDecades after King’s death, the idea of guaranteed income went on to see a resurgence of support emanating out of Silicon Valley. Other tech industry tycoons, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, have also thrown immense financial support behind guaranteed income programs.

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☆ We now have more details on what the heck happened at OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new report described in more detail why the OpenAI board initially pushed out Sam Altman. Altman reportedly tried to get a board member, Helen Toner, kicked out, but it backfired. The report cited an unnamed source who said Altman tried to play board members against each other. Here's what the outlet wrote in part (emphasis added):Some members of the OpenAI board had found Altman an unnervingly slippery operator. Read here: The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership With OpenAI (The New Yorker)

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Helen Toner, —, Sam Altman —, Kevin Scott, Mira Murati, he'd, OpenAI, Toner Organizations: Service, Yorker, Microsoft, New York Times, Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Georgetown University, Microsoft's Locations: Turkey, New, Yorker

☆ OpenAI’s wild week explained: How the Sam Altman story unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Diksha Madhok | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

ET, OpenAI publicly announced that it had fired Altman over concerns that he was not always truthful with the board. Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI's first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. OpenAI’s board was also reportedly having second thoughts and considering asking the ousted CEO to return. Ultimately, Microsoft and Altman appear to be the big winners from the dust-up: Altman will continue leading the firm he helped to found. “We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board,” Nadella said on X.

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☆ OpenAI staff are putting their visas at risk to get Sam Altman back as CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

700 OpenAI employees have signed a letter threatening to quit if Sam Altman isn't reinstated as CEO. Some of them say they are on work-dependent visas, which they could lose if they are forced to quit. It's a sign of how much loyalty Altman has inspired among staff. AdvertisementOpenAI's employees are calling on the company's board to bring back Sam Altman — and some are even willing to put their visas at risk to get him back as CEO. A number of senior OpenAI employees are already expected to follow Altman and ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman to Microsoft.

Persons: Sam Altman isn't, It's, Altman, —, Sam Altman —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever —, Reiichiro Nakano, Boris Power, Emmett Shear, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Kara Swisher, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business

☆ Catch up on the OpenAI’s wild 60 hours… in 60 seconds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

ET, OpenAI publicly announced that it had fired Altman over concerns that he was not always truthful with the board. OpenAI’s strategic partners, including investor Microsoft, were also reportedly informed of Altman’s ouster minutes before the board’s announcement. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly mediated the discussion. Hundreds of employees on Monday morning signed an open letter calling on the company’s board to resign and reinstate Altman and Brockman. The Verge reported Monday afternoon that Altman and Brockman could still return to OpenAI if the board members who fired him resign.

Persons: Sam Altman —, he’d, OpenAI, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, Altman’s, “, what’s, ” Brockman, Kara Swisher, Joel Saget, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Brockman, Emmett Shear, Murati, openai, ” Altman Organizations: New, New York CNN, Microsoft, Google, Getty, OpenAI Locations: New York, AFP, OpenAI

☆ VCs weigh in on the chaos unfolding at OpenAI, rallying behind ousted CEO Sam Altman: 'I hope the board can get its act together'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI's board ousted Sam Altman, its chief executive, on Friday. AdvertisementVCs this weekend have one message for Sam Altman — we're with you. In another X post, he called on OpenAI's board to explain in more detail why they fired Altman. Advertisement"We are grateful for Sam's many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI," the board said in a statement. "So I hope the board can get its act together and bring Sam and Greg back."

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☆ Slowing down on AI will cause preventable deaths — and that's a form of murder, says Marc Andreessen
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen posted a mammoth 5000-word techno-optimist manifesto on Monday. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder," wrote Andreessen. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder," wrote Marc Andreessen. "Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas, "Andreessen wrote. Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, —, Andreessen, Elon Musk, Sam Altman —, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Service, Forbes

☆ Sam Altman tracked how quickly people responded to his texts and emails to distinguish between 'great and mediocre founders'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman tracked how quickly Y Combinator founders responded to his daily emails and texts. During that time, he kept notes on how quickly founders responded to his daily emails and texts, according to New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil. Neither Altman's blog post nor the New York Magazine profile specified Altman's expected response times to texts and emails. Altman responded that he had written a program to look at how quickly Y Combinator's best founders answer his emails versus the "bad" ones. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times," Altman said at the time.

Persons: Sam Altman, —, Sam Altman —, Altman, New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil, Tyler Cowen, Tyler, Y, OpenAI Organizations: New York Magazine, Service, OpenAI, Stanford University, York Magazine Locations: New York

☆ The biotech CEO trying to reverse aging has removed all but 3 things from his bedroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bryan Johnson is trying to reverse aging through an experimental project that costs up to $2 million a year. A Time Magazine profile found that the biotech CEO's bedroom is almost completely empty. The only objects in his bedroom are his bed, a laser face shield, and a device to attach to his genitals to measure nighttime erections. No work, no reading," Johnson told Time Magazine's Charlotte Alter. Scientists told Insider's Marianne Guenot and Lloyd Lee in February that many aspects of his routine have unclear health benefits.

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☆ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI models have 'stolen' copyrighted content from media companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's message to companies interested in generative AI is clear: the technology can't be trusted yet. Benioff spent much of the conference issuing ominous warnings about the perils of generative AI while simultaneously touting his own company's new technology as ethical and secure. "We're not scraping the Internet with our models, if that's your question," Benioff told me Wednesday afternoon. Salesforce has "an open philosophy" regarding the development of large language models (LLMs), Benioff said, building some on top of pre-existing models and building others from scratch. Baxter said that Salesforce only uses customer data with consent and performs legal reviews before using any open-source data for AI model training.

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Artificial intelligence is again in focus this week in Washington, as leading tech executives — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Sam Altman — as well as labor leaders and civil society groups meet on Wednesday with lawmakers behind closed doors. The gathering is the first of a series of Schumer’s listening sessions before lawmakers start writing rules. “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for Congress—we need AI experts, ethicists, labor leaders, civil rights groups, the world of academia, defense and beyond helping us with the work ahead,” he wrote Tuesday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Two separate Senate hearings devoted to A.I. It includes an independent office to oversee A.I., licensing and safety standards, and making executives liable for their tech.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman —, Chuck Schumer, ”, Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley Organizations: Elon, Democratic, Twitter Locations: Washington, New York, Connecticut, Republican, Missouri

☆ Elon Musk's xAI and OpenAI are going head-to-head in the race to create AI that's smarter than humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to create superintelligent AI. Musk said xAI plans to use Twitter data to train a "maximally curious" and "truth-seeking" superintelligence. Elon Musk is throwing out challenge after challenge to tech CEOs — while he wants to physically fight Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, he's now racing with OpenAI to create AI smarter than humans. On Saturday, Musk said on Twitter Spaces that his new company, xAI, is "definitely in competition" with OpenAI. Over a 100-minute discussion that drew over 1.6 million listeners, Musk explained his plan for xAI to use Twitter data to train superintelligent AI that is "maximally curious" and "truth-seeking."

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, —, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, he's, OpenAI, Altman, Semafor, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Sam Altman — Organizations: Twitter, Intelligence

☆ The AI act: Europe is leading the race to regulate artificial intelligence. Here's what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“We have made history today,” Brando Benifei, a member of the European Parliament working on the EU AI Act, told journalists. Detailed summaries of the copyrighted data used to train these AI systems would also have to be published. AI systems with minimal or no risk, such as spam filters, fall largely outside of the rules. Fines under the AI Act serve as a “war cry from the legislators to say, ‘take this seriously’,” Muldoon said. The Act also requires EU member states to establish at least one regulatory “sandbox” to test AI systems before they are deployed.

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☆ A Wharton business school professor is requiring his students to use ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

UPenn professor Ethan Mollick now requires his students to use ChatGPT in their studies, per NPR. While some schools banned ChatGPT, Mollick said that it can serve as a useful learning tool. Ethan Mollick, an entrepreneurship and innovation professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told NPR on Thursday that he now requires his students to use ChatGPT to help with their classwork. His new AI policy — which NPR reviewed — calls AI usage an "emerging skill." During class this week, nearly all of his students used ChatGPT to help generate project ideas for an assignment.

☆ CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools' plagiarism concerns: 'We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that OpenAI will devise ways to identity chatGPT plagiarism. But creating tools that perfectly detect AI plagiarism is fundamentally impossible, he said. Altman warns schools and policy makers to avoid relying on plagiarism detection tools. "There may be ways we can help teachers be a little more likely to detect output of a GPT-like system. "We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine.

☆ Google's management has reportedly issued a 'code red' amid the rising popularity of the ChatGPT AI
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google issued a "code red" in response to the rise of AI bot ChatGPT, NYT reports. CEO Sundar Pichai redirected some teams to focus on building out AI products, per the report. The move comes as talks abound over whether ChatGPT could one day replace Google's search engine. ChatGPT "is not something that people can use reliably on a daily basis," Zoubin Ghahramani, who leads the Google's A.I. Instead, Google may focus on improving its search engine over time rather than taking it down, experts told the Times.

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