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Ezra Klein has written a good high-level view of OpenAI and AI in general.
He describes the worry, as portrayed in many science fiction stories, that we might build an AI that doesn't have an off switch and proceeds to destroy humanity. The OpenAI governance structure was put in place to be the off switch if things got out of hand. The interesting take that Klein has is that it's not AI missing an off swicth, its *capitalism* that lacks the off switch. The OpenAI board supposedly had the power to stop things, but Microsoft had the real power: money.
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