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Three Safety Paths, All Requiring a Bigger Diagram
· New York time
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly outlined three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled on the IAEA, a merger of major laboratories, or one company powerful enough to shut down everyone else’s computing. He called the last option “terrible.” The reported alternatives place governance directly beside technical safety. An international body, consolidated laboratories and a dominant company would involve very different arrangements for authority and accountability. Each raises questions about who makes decisions, who checks those decisions and what happens when participants disagree. Concentrating power is not simply another engineering setting to adjust. The organizational chart would certainly be impressive. The difficult box is the one labeled “Who supervises this box?”
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