OpenAI, Palantir & Grok: The AI Safety Reality Check

So first up was kind of after all of the brouhaha from this Jacob Coxon who left Open AI and Anthropic and kind of published his I'm Leaving.

And nobody's, it seems like this was pretty intentionally planned.

coordinated with outside groups, because it's like a random 27-year-old researcher.

Lots of people have been saying things like this for many years.

This just really blew up.

So in the wake of that, which we covered last week, Dario Amodei put out his essay kind of stating, we need to pace the frontier, was his phrase.

And he really said, we need independent auditors inside.

We need domestic, democratically controlled coordination, and then global coordination.

So two of those are like pipe dreams.

And the first one he said, we're just going to do.

Sam Altman comes on and says, that sounds like a great idea.

We're going to bring in some independent auditors inside our houses too.

And then Dennis Hassabis kind of came out, who's not really running DeepMind day-to-day, and said, it seems like directly the right thing, but we should talk about the details.

So everybody kind of got on board with the general idea at the beginning, at least the people in the building at these AI companies.

Yeah, I mean, I have to be honest, I did not see this coming because, you know, shame on me, last week I was laughing about this 27-year-old and I was like, whatever, he just wants his minutes of fame.

I did not expect the companies not to come up, like, I would have thought they would come out with some sort of a, here's why you should feel safe.

And the fact that instead they came out and they were like, yeah, we agree.

I was like, oh, that's a little bit unsettling.

Yeah.

But then I started thinking about it from their perspective also, because I think there was a lot of people in various camps.

And as usual, as all things in this country, like most people are too extreme on one side or the other and not enough people kind of thinking about the middle.

And I was trying to think about it from their point of view.

And I'm like, they're kind of having a Dr. Frankenstein moment where they're like, all these people think our technology is going to like end the world.

Yeah.

And I don't know.