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The race to build AI that benefits humanity | Sam Altman

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Is There a Golden Rule for Technology?

I think it is technically possible for this to be sort of like a layer above the neo cortex that makes even better decisions for us and our welfare. I think most people are fundamentally extremely good. A very few people wake up in the morning thinking about, how can i make the world a worse place? But the incentive systems that we're in are so powerful. Even those engineers who join with the absolute best of intentions get sucked into this world where they're trying to go up from four to five or whatever. You get caught up playing the game. It's like fun to get promoted. It feels good to make more money. And there's versions of this at playi like every big

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