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Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Whistleblower William Saunders quit over systemic issues at OpenAI. Now he’s put his name to an open letter that proposes 4 principles to protect the right of industry insiders to warn the public about AI risks. On Your Undivided Attention this week, Tristan and Aza sit down with Saunders to discuss.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone this is Tristan and this is Aisa. You might have heard some of the

0:08.8

big news in AI this week that 11 current and former open AI employees published an open letter called

0:16.2

A Right to Warn.

0:18.2

And it outlines four principles that are meant to protect the ability of employees to warn about under-addressed risks before they happen.

0:27.0

And Tristan, I sort of want to turn it over to you because they're talking about the risks that happen that are underdressed in a race to take shortcuts.

0:36.0

Yeah, so just to link this to things we've talked about all the time in this podcast.

0:40.0

If you show me the incentive, I will show you the outcome.

0:43.0

And in AI, the incentive is to win the race to AGI,

0:46.3

to get to artificial general intelligence first,

0:48.9

which means the race to market dominance,

0:51.6

getting as many users onto your AI model, getting as many people

0:55.0

using chat geepte, doing a deal with Apple, so the next iPhone comes with your AI model, opening

1:00.9

up your APIs so that you're giving every AI developer exactly what they want,

1:05.2

have as many plugins as they want, do the trillion dollar training run, and show your investors

1:10.3

that you have the new exciting AI model.

1:12.4

Once you do all that and you're going at this super fast clip,

1:15.0

your incentives are to keep releasing, to keep racing, and those incentives mean to keep taking shortcuts.

1:22.0

Given the fact that there is no current regulation in mean to keep taking shortcuts.

1:22.7

Given the fact that there is no current regulation

1:25.0

in the US for AI systems, we're left with,

1:27.8

well, who sees the early warning signs?

1:29.8

It's the people inside the companies.

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