Book Excerpt Reveals Altman-Amodei Feud and 2017 Plan to Auction AGI Rights
A book excerpt published in The Atlantic details the ongoing feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The excerpt also reveals a 2017 plan by Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries.
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Kevin Roose / The Atlantic : A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries — A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it. — Being in San Francisco …
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