Andrew Ross Sorkin: “One of the other questions, and it is Elon related, is you are now moving towards having a for profit component part of your business. Right now it’s a not for profit. And he, as everybody knows, if you read the papers, is suing you over this and many other things.
As a guy who I spent a lot of time with him and you guys founded this thing together, how you feel personally today about all of this?”
Sam Altman: “This is tremendously sad. I grew up with Elon as like a mega hero. I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world. And I’m still, of course, I mean, I have different feelings about now.
I’m so glad he exists. And not just because. No, I mean that genuinely not. Not just because I think his like, companies are awesome, which I do think, but because I think he like at a time when most of the world was not thinking very ambitiously, he pushed a lot of people, me included, to think much more ambitiously and I’m grateful.
But I think of Elon as a builder and someone who, like, you know, known thing about Elon, he really cares about being the guy.
But I think of him as someone that if he’s not, that just competes in the market and in technology and whatever else and doesn’t resort to lawfare.
And, you know, whatever the stated complaint is, what I believe is he’s just like he’s a competitor and we’re doing well. And that’s sad to see.”
‘We’re doing well’ is not the optimal statement to say when you’re being accused of monopolistic business practices.

Sam Altman brushes off safety questions about Open AI, even after whistleblower complaints:
Andrew Ross Sorkin: “So here’s the safety question, and we’ve all read the headlines. You’ve been in the headlines over the past year or two years. There have been so many people, both inside open air who have either left or spoken out or other things where they say these guys are not focused on safety enough.”
Sam Altman: “Well, I point to our track record. And it is now generally we considered by most of society to be acceptably safe and acceptably robust safety.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin: “Different people who’ve left the organization, they’ve gone public: These people are not focused on safety.”
Sam Altman: “There are definitely people who think Chat GPT is not sufficiently safe.”
If AI takes over like in the movies, the ‘bad guy’ would be Greedy Sam Altman more focused on profits than the prophetic warnings about AI and safety.

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Sam Altman accuses Elon Musk of ‘lawfare’; brushes off safety employees left or spoken out safety