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Re: I resigned from OpenAI

#31

Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.

I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.

China is currently a more morally virtuous country than the US.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.

The myth of american moral superiority had been dead for a while. Why would china be any more evil than the US, which has waged far more colonialist wars and killed far more foreign lives in recent times (look at the news today for inspiration)

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To save a click > I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the…

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Re: I resigned from OpenAI

#35

That twitter post was clearly written by AI along with the instructions for the AI to avoid "tells" and other tropes common to AI. Absolutely nothing wrong with something written with AI. Just pointing it out.

if that's the case, ai failed to remove the negative parallel construction (my current top ai smell aside from slanted inverted commas). what signs are there of this being ai asked not to sound like ai?

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

#37
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Good for Caitlin. Sam Altman is awful. He literally admitted on Twitter that they rushed their military contract to get it done. Are you kidding me? You rushed your military contract? Any employee who stays, especially given the financial cushion they have, is complicit. Shame on all of them. But here’s the sad truth: most of the knowledge workers at OpenAI won’t be of any value sometime soon because of the very tool…

You cant just blame everyone at OpenAI

Everyone has their own unique situation

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

#40

Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.

I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.

while you are worried about China, USI have done a genocide and started a new war.
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