OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns on surveillance and auto-weapons(fortune.com)

25 pointsby elsewhenvor 4 Monaten5 comments

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns on surveillance and auto-weapons

https://fortune.com/2026/03/07/openai-robotics-leader-caitlin-kalinowski-resignation-pentagon-surveillance-autonomous-weapons-anthropic/

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mindslightvor 4 Monaten

AI ethicists a decade ago: "But could a superintelligence be smart enough to trick its human captors into letting it out of its box into the real world ?"

AI industry today: < props open door, coaxes it out with raw human flesh >

salawatvor 4 Monaten

Every damn major problem of AI Alignment is something we've been tackling for decades. We just call it something different. Corporate Governance and resource allocation. Thing is, the decision timescale and ability to come to a definitive conclusion about the outcome of something has been on a slow enough timescale we do eventually catch on. Throw a computer in the mix... Not so much.

mindslightvor 4 Monaten

Yeah I completely agree. I thought the whole abstract "superintelligence in an isolating cage" was kind of an out of touch pipe dream, and that has borne out.

dataflowvor 4 Monaten

Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284834

fabioperezvor 4 Monaten

Another data point for https://7min.ai/exodus/, where I track all relevant AI talent moves. It's the second big move from OpenAI in a week, after Max Schwarzer.