The growing troubles at OpenAI
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A former OpenAI board member dropped a bombshell allegation about CEO Sam Altman and the company’s ethics. But this isn’t the first time employees have expressed safety concerns about the company. We’ll explain. Plus, a new rule aims to protect buy now, pay later users. And, how college sports might finally get recognized as a multibillion-dollar business.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “The Golden Triangle: How the CHIPS Act is changing one Arizona neighborhood” from Marketplace
- “What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner” from The TED AI Show
- “Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman” from The Verge
- “Commissioner Sankey: ‘There’s no better time to be a student-athlete’” from SEC Sports
- “What to know about House v. NCAA settlement and a historic day for college sports” from The New York Times
- “Klarna CEO on CFPB declaration: Wise to put regulations around this” from CNBC
- “CFPB Takes Action to Ensure Consumers Can Dispute Charges and Obtain Refunds on Buy Now, Pay Later Loans” from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- “Buy now, pay later debt grows but is hidden from credit bureaus” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. |
| 0:02.0 | A whole thing is unacceptable. |
| 0:05.0 | 105, baby, minute and seven seconds now. |
| 0:08.0 | Jay Seabold, save me. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh Hey everybody I'm |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Carter Rizdow. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart Where we make today makes sense even if we're late getting into the studio. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm Kim Really Adams. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you everyone for joining us whenever you can on this Thursday. |
| 0:27.6 | It is May the 30th. |
| 0:30.0 | We are going to do what we do on Thursday is listen back to some of the |
| 0:32.7 | big stories of the week. We've got some audio clips lined up as we do. The first one |
| 0:36.7 | is from a series we've been doing on the show called Breaking Ground |
| 0:41.9 | about the Biden administration's infrastructure push and |
| 0:45.9 | clean energy push and their decision and and desire to involve the government |
| 0:52.1 | more deeply in the economy. |
| 0:53.5 | The first one, first cut, please, tape we're going to play is about the |
| 0:58.2 | semiconductor boom in Phoenix, Arizona, courtesy of the Chips Act, and how it is changing that city and in a way that state. Here you go. |
| 1:07.5 | I see that as a boom to my business because that's more people. However, I also do like not having, I don't like the big city feel and we still feel like country. |
| 1:21.6 | So that was a woman named Yvette Stump. She was on the |
| 1:23.9 | program yesterday. She runs a kids hair salon on the sort of northern border of |
| 1:29.4 | Phoenix and I was asking her how she feels about all the new development how she feels about the |
| 1:34.5 | economy how she feels about what the Biden administration is doing how she |
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