Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity to attain total dominance of the world economy and they’re going to grab it, inequality be damned.
Their profits must be redistributed. The free market wasn’t designed to handle this.
These companies who plan to take more risks in the future shouldn’t be risking everyone else’s safety.
I’m a little bit tired of the “oh we don’t know when we’re going to destroy civilisation with a paper clip optimizer, could be soon or in twenty years, who knows?”. How about we go do our risky experiments on another planet and if the experiment works out well. Great.
Personally I’m also not interested in if Russia or China are doing AI research too. We should be leading by example, not solely by economics or strange ideaology.
Regarding Microsoft / Open AI, they’ve stolen basically everyone’s work that was public facing, and I’d go as far to say taken all of the open source work, tax payer funded research and everything else and put a price tag on selling it back to the world while endangering many peoples careers all in the name of “safety”, it’s already unsafe.
If we let MS and OpenAI get away with mass IP theft then we are actually stupid.
From the point of view of the creators & owners, that is pretty much true.
There is a ton of research that wealth & power reduce empathy.
They already are relatively unconcerned about what happens to the masses. When they get effectively infinite power, and the wealth that follows, the old saying will apply perfectly:
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
If it is going to be shut off, either the owners & creators will have to be truly exceptionally ethical, or it will have to be done by force. Most likely, it won't be done, and we'll have to live with it.
OpenAI will likely capture very little of the economic value created by these models. Given that open source alternative are roughly 6 months behind varying by model type (language, image, audio) it's difficult to see them having much long term pricing power.
There's no network effect, copyright or sunk cost that stops their customers going to the open source models whose price is just the cost of compute for inference.