Sam #Altman said in February 02023: “eliezer has IMO done more to accelerate AGI than anyone else.
certainly he got many of us interested in AGI, helped deepmind get funded at a time when AGI was extremely outside the overton window, was critical in the decision to start openai, etc.
it is possible at some point he will deserve the nobel peace prize for this--I continue to think short timelines and slow takeoff is likely the safest quadrant of the short/long timelines and slow/fast takeoff matrix” #AI #history #Eliezer #OpenAI
on 02026-09-21#news investigating #Altman’s integrity #toread
on 02026-05-04#AI doomer #politics with high certainty leads to violence like Daniel Moreno-Gama’s Molotov cocktail attack the other day at Sam #Altman’s house; describes Moreno-Gama’s online history following PauseAI. He calls himself “Butlerian Jihadist” on social media. #news
on 02026-04-13Sam #Altman about someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at his house last night. #politics #AI
on 02026-04-10Sam #Altman says that we’re in an #AI bubble, because with US$750M valuations for “three people and an idea”, “someone’s gonna get burned.”
on 02025-08-19