Making AI Headlines · Page 9
OpenAI Offers Society a Contract With Its Own Business in the Room
· New York time
OpenAI's Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election and has proposed a new social contract for the technology. TechCrunch reports that the idea could benefit Americans while also advancing OpenAI's business interests. The proposal places a company with a major stake in AI at the center of a broad political discussion. A social contract suggests a shared agreement about benefits and responsibilities, but the parties affected include voters, workers, lawmakers and competing businesses as well as the company offering the idea. That tension makes the proposal both significant and convenient. OpenAI can argue for a future in which its technology helps the public, while also promoting conditions favorable to its own business. The contract has a very interested author, even if its eventual terms would need a much larger audience.
Read this story in the full newspaper →Satire. Not factual reporting. Read the original reporting from the linked publishers.