OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: “AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!“

The scary open secrets in the AI industry right now is that it's possible that we'll end up essentially creating a new species that ends up ruling the world. With a seventy percent chance that this goes horribly wrong like human extinction. That's one possibility. There's many more. Yeah, it's uh It gets me down sometimes. I basically told my wife, like let's not have any more kids, it's too uncertain. I don't think they'll ever join the workforce.

Everybody should be afraid that their jobs are gonna be lost. And I know this because I went to open AI in twenty twenty two. What I did there was forecasting what the next couple of years might look like. Then unfortunately most of the world is kind of asleep at the wheel and doesn't really realize what's going on with AI. So I resigned. I read it somewhere. You lost two million dollars for not signing an anti disparagement clause, meaning you couldn't criticize the company. Yes, for reasons I'm happy to get into. But the main thing I've learned is that when I go talk to people at Anthropic and OpenAI about forecasting, they're like, It's not gonna take that long. You need to shorten them again. Get him back to twenty twenty seven or twenty twenty eight, because these powerful CEOs Ariel or Sam or Elon are racing you. each other to be in control of the most powerful AIs and are literally afraid that if the other guy gets there first he might become dictator. I mean Anthropica is on track to be the entire economy by twenty thirty. But none of these people should be trusted with that much power. So this is the most important thing happening in our lifetimes, probably in all of history in fact. And it's very important that it go well. So I think that there's a lot we can do to like steer things in a better direction. There's loads of benefits that we could get from AI if we do it right. And if we do solve the problems, then things could be absolutely amazing for everyone. Well this report here in twenty twenty-one, it was remarkably accurate. And then you just published this one. Yeah. So this is on your scenario. So let's go through these slowly and one at a time.

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