Karen Hao

And Altman has said publicly, you know,

The worst case lights out for everyone.

But best case, we cure cancer, we solve climate change, and there's abundance.

And Dario Amadei, same kind of rhetoric.

He's like, worst case, catastrophic or existential harm for humanity.

Best case, mass human flourishing.

So this is like two sides of the same coin.

Like they have to use both of these narratives in order to continue justifying an extremely anti-democratic approach to AI development where there should not be broad participation in developing this technology.

They must be the ones controlling it at every step of the way.

100% because there's only three books coming out about him.

He knew my book was coming out because I had contacted OpenAI from the very beginning of my process and said, I'm working on a book now.

Will you participate in it?

And actually, initially, they said yes.

So my history with OpenAI, I profiled the company for MIT Technology Review.

I embedded within the office for three days in 2019.

My profile comes out in 2021.

the leadership are very unhappy.

And in my book, I actually quote an email that I received that Sam Altman sent to the company about my profile saying,

Yeah, this is not great.

And from then on, the company's stance to me was, we are not going to participate in anything that you do.