″But more to that, like, no one person should be trusted here. I don’t have super voting shares. Like I don’t want them. The board can fire me. I think that’s important. I think the board over time needs to get like democratized to all of humanity.There’s many ways that could be implemented.
But the reason for our structure and the reason it’s so weird and one of the consequences of that weirdness was me ending up with no equity, is we think this technology, the benefits, the access to it, the governance of it, belongs to humanity as a whole.
You should not, if this really works, it’s quite a powerful technology, and you should not trust one company and certainly not one person with it.
Interviewer So why should we trust OpenAI? Are you saying we shouldn’t?
Sam No, I think you should trust OpenAI, but only if OpenAI is doing these sorts of things. Like if we’re years down the road and have not sort of figured out how to start democratizing control, then I think you...”
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″But more to that, like, no one person should be trusted here. I don’t have super voting shares. Like I don’t want them. The board can fire me. I think that’s important. I think the board over time needs to get like democratized to all of humanity.There’s many ways that could be implemented.
But the reason for our structure and the reason it’s so weird and one of the consequences of that weirdness was me ending up with no equity, is we think this technology, the benefits, the access to it, the governance of it, belongs to humanity as a whole.
You should not, if this really works, it’s quite a powerful technology, and you should not trust one company and certainly not one person with it.
Interviewer
So why should we trust OpenAI? Are you saying we shouldn’t?
Sam
No, I think you should trust OpenAI, but only if OpenAI is doing these sorts of things. Like if we’re years down the road and have not sort of figured out how to start democratizing control, then I think you...”