Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Just a few months ago, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the financial journalist, was on this program, and he quoted a figure that was Really remarkable, virtually all of the recent economic growth in the United States, Sorkin told me, is investment in artificial intelligence.
A lot of people are concerned that a huge bubble around AI is about to pop and take the economy with it. And a few people continue to feel that AI is just a overhyped. But I don't think there's really much doubt at this point that in our lifetimes at least, AI is going to bring changes as significant as the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. At the center of this world changing technology is a man named Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.
It was OpenAI that really brought artificial intelligence into most of our lives, with ChatGPT, And that exploded into our consciousness in 2022. But the chatbots are just the tip of the iceberg. OpenAI is planning to go public this year, and it recently fundraised more money than any company ever. Ronan Farrow and Andrew Morance have spoken with over a hundred people closely connected to Sam Altman
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