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Flo Crivello@Altimor

It feels like OpenAI bait-and-switched some of the world’s best AI researchers into joining them, by first professing deep alignment with their safety concerns, and then shedding these promises the moment they met commercial success.

217 likes16 repliesPosted May 17, 2024

View the original on X Written by Flo Crivello. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

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