“Another way for it to happen is that a well-meaning team of programmers make a big mistake in designing its goal system. This could result, to return to the earlier example, in a superintelligence whose top goal is the manufacturing of paperclips, with the consequence that it starts transforming first all of earth and then increasing portions of space into paperclip manufacturing facilities.” - Nick Bostrom
“[Sam] Altman has reportedly been attempting to raise up to $7 trillion to boost his GPU-chip supply. The Wall Street Journal reported that the tech CEO had held talks with investors including in the United Arab Emirates.” - Business Insider
“you can grind to help secure our collective future or you can write substacks about why we are going fail” - Sam Altman
It’s not the failing that worries me, Sam.