The Guardian view on OpenAI’s board shake-up: changes deliver more for shareholders than for humanity | Editorial

The development of supersmart AI needs careful handling – and that probably won’t be made easier by a bout of corporate chaos

In the 1983 movie WarGames, the US defence department runs a superintelligent central computer that is hacked into by a teenager, who unwittingly almost causes a nuclear Armageddon. The end of the world is averted when the computer, known as Joshua, learns, after playing tic-tac-toe with the teenager, that nuclear war cannot have a winner. The insight …

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