Helen Toner, who voted to oust Altman, on AI safety and overseeing OpenAI
trevposts · x · 2026-09-20
- Crooked Media's Offline with Jon Favreau interviews Helen Toner, Executive Director of Georgetown's CSET and former OpenAI board member who voted to oust Sam Altman in 2023.
- She shares firsthand experience overseeing a frontier AI lab, her view of where the technology is heading, and strategies to avoid the scariest outcomes, framed around why AI inspires both apocalypse and utopia narratives. Matt Yglesias recommends it as a primer on basic AI safety concerns.
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