At a senate panel this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of the rapid advances of AI technology and the potential harms it could cause to the world. He predicted that artificial intelligence can give birth to twins in the future, whose names would be God and Satan. Altman described a cosmic dance where one of the AI entity will battle to protect the earth, while the other one will try to destroy it. Thus, the fate of humanity will lay between these two forces.
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research lab devoted to discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. It conducts cutting-edge research in deep learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, physics, and robotics with the main goal of advancing the field of artificial intelligence. As a research-focused lab, OpenAI aims to democratize AI through open-source projects and tools, as well as through educational initiatives.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He has a background in data science and technology startups. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having co-founded Loopt, Y Combinator, and a few other companies. Altman was educated at Stanford University and is a frequent speaker on AI at conferences and universities, in addition to being active on the OpenAI blog. With his strong conviction in the potential of AI to do greater good for humanity, Altman is a strong voice in the world of AI and robotics.
