Andrew Morantz

So

There's definitely personal animus among a lot of these people.

It's a very small world.

There are really only a few scientists who understand this technology well enough to push the envelope forward.

They all interact with each other.

A lot of them have worked together, and a lot of them have had very deep personal fallings out with each other.

So yes, there's a personal layer.

But there is also a substantive structural layer.

Look, I mean, I think...

ultimately the last thing we would want is for someone to come away from this story thinking, oh, I now have these doubts and skepticisms about Sam Altman being the AGI dictator, so I think Elon should be the AGI dictator, or I think Dario should be the AGI dictator, right?

Obviously, the personal stuff only matters insofar as it gets to this larger structural question, which is, why are we talking about anyone being AGI dictator?

Isn't that

And the fact is these guys know it sounds crazy, and yet they're kind of racing toward that precipice anyway.

Definitely.

There are many, many ongoing lawsuits.

Some of them are about how liable should these companies be when somebody gets hurt, whether it's a murder, a suicide, a mass shooting.

There are other issues that have to do with copyright issues.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI.

So they're fighting these battles on many fronts.

And a lot of this has to do with the fact that like a lot of tech companies, a lot of these AI companies seem to pursue the strategy of kind of, you know,