305: AI’s Cultish Leader
Ronan Farrow is at it again. The reporter who has a new feature in The New Yorker, written alongside staff writer Andrew Marantz, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In many ways, the 16,000-word investigation is a meditation on the existential risks of AI being placed in the hands of a few powerful men, and in this case a possible sociopath.
Today we discuss the article and then zoom out on broader questions in AI: who is it for, how is it being used, and can it be reined in?
Show Notes
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
