AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it | Kenan Malik

The chaos at OpenAI reveals contradictions in the way we think about the technology

At times it felt less like Succession than Fawlty Towers, not so much Shakespearean tragedy as Laurel and Hardy farce. OpenAI is the hottest tech company today thanks to the success of its most famous product, the chatbot ChatGPT. It was inevitable that the mayhem surrounding the sacking, and subsequent rehiring, of Sam Altman as its CEO would play out across global …

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