Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned to discover the extent of the promises that Altman had made to Microsoft for which technologies it would get access to in return for its investment. The terms of the deal didn’t align with what they had understood from Altman. If AI safety issues actually arose in OpenAI’s models, they worried, those commitments would make it far more difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the models’ deployment. Amodei’s contingent began to have serious doubts about Altman’s honesty.
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