Joe Allen

He knows these people.

He's watched it up close.

And you had first Google say,

begin in around 2012 or 13, really pushing the idea we are going to create artificial general intelligence.

You then had Musk and Sam Altman and Ilya Setskever form OpenAI as a open

nonprofit, publicly monitored, transparent company to compete with Google.

They were saying, we will create artificial general intelligence, but we will do it safely and openly.

Obviously, that didn't happen.

Musk left.

Ilya left.

I don't know about their motives, but I do know that as that began to branch out, you had Dario Amadei and Jack Clark leave OpenAI to form Anthropic.

You had Musk leave, and then eventually, right after signing the Future of Life statement, calling for a pause on AI, right after that, Musk announces XAI is open for business.

And now you've got...

multiple frontier companies.

And they all, because they've got a lot of the same employees moving back and forth, a lot of the same ideas, and a lot of this is already open, they are copying each other and building these systems up.

And so what you end up with, the way Tegmark describes it is basically you have all these CEOs with a kind of messiah complex.

And they believe that if they are the ones to create the system, they will be able to resist their own kind of inner demons and create something benevolent.

I agree with Tegmark that that's the dynamic, and I also agree with him that that is delusional.

These people are not even in command of their most base instincts, let alone in possession of some kind of moral high ground.

I was at that hearing, actually.