OpenAI and Artificial Intelligence Empire: When ideology prefers speed over performance

Karen Huo, a journalist and author of the best -selling book The Empire of Artificial Intelligence, Openai and the Artificial Intelligence Industry to a digital empire that is expanding with the promise of “public artificial intelligence for the benefit of all humanity”. According to Huo, the company has not only found economic power but also significant political power in the world and has formed how to use artificial intelligence.

Ideology and Speed ​​is preferable to efficiency

Hoo says there is a pseudo -religious ideology that prefers the speed of public artificial intelligence development over efficiency, safety and exploration research. According to him:

“When you try to build a useful public intelligence as an attempt in which the winner wins everything, the most important thing is speed.”

Sam Altman and his team also use existing techniques and huge investment in superconductors to maintain this speed and force other technology companies to follow.

Astronomical costs and impact on industry

OpenAI has predicted that it will spend $ 5 billion in artificial intelligence development by year 2. Big companies like Meta and Google also invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Hoo says these costs and concentrations of the industry have made most of the top artificial intelligence researchers attracted to Openai and less academic research.

Great promises, real risks

While Openai promises to promote humanity and help the sciences, Hoo warns that significant human and social costs have been created:

• Job loss

• Focusing wealth

• Increased illusions and mental disorders caused

• Hard and low wages for workers in developing countries that examine the annoying content

Hoo points to Google Dipmand Alphafold that it is an example of artificial intelligence that creates real and extensive benefits.

Global competition and geopolitical consequences

Despite the slogans of Openai and Silicon Valley about competition with China, Hoo says:

“In fact, the gap between the United States and China is declining, and Silicon Valley is the only actor to benefit from this situation.”

A profit or charity mission?

Hoo and former OpenAI researchers warn that the company may lose the boundary between its profit and nonprofit missions. People’s use of ChatGPT and other products may be mistakenly interpreted as being useful for humanity, while evidence suggests that some of the company’s actions are damaging to a significant number of people.

Huo concludes:

“The real danger is that when you drown in a belief system you have built, you lose your relationship with reality.”

Openai today has become a global economic and political power that, with the promise of “public artificial intelligence for the benefit of all humanity”, forms the path of industry. The company and other great artificial intelligence actors, with astronomical investments and attracting most top researchers, prefer development speeds and safety.

While artificial intelligence can provide great benefits for human science, productivity, and life, Hoo and experts warn that human and social costs, job loss, wealth focus, and psychological harm are also present.

In other words, Openai and the like are moving in a risky and risky path that can bring both enormous gains and serious threats to human societies and social infrastructure. This situation is reminiscent of a digital empire; Where the ideology and the speed of development determine the facts and risks.