Commenter adds a third AI risk to Sam Altman's list: circular financing
michalmalewicz · x · 2026-09-14
- Sam Altman outlined two ways AI progress could go badly: losing control of the future to AI — unacceptable, OpenAI is "unapologetically on Team Humanity" and alignment/safety techniques must stay ahead of capabilities — and a world with too much conce[ntrated...].
- A commenter added a third risk: circular financing is being used to prop up AI-related businesses, a jab at the mutually-reinforcing investment structures across AI vendors.
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