I imagine Sam’s mental model is the bigger lead OpenAI has over others, the more control they can have at pivotal moments, and (in his mind) the safer things will be. Everyone else is quickly catching up in terms of capability, but if OpenAI has special chips their competitors don’t have access to, then they have an edge. Obviously, this can’t really be distinguished from Sam just trying to maximize his own ambitions, but it doesn’t necessarily undercut safety goals either.
Sam is not pitching special chips for OpenAI here, right?
I do not read safety goals into this project, which sounds more like it’s “make there be many more fabs distributed around the world for more chips and decreased centralization”. (Which, fwiw, erodes options for containing specialized chips.)
Wouldn’t Sam selling large amounts of chips to OAI’s direct competitors constitute a conflict of interest? It also doesn’t seem like something he would want to do, since he seems very devoted to OAI’s success, for better or worse. Why would he want to increase decentralization?
I imagine Sam’s mental model is the bigger lead OpenAI has over others, the more control they can have at pivotal moments, and (in his mind) the safer things will be. Everyone else is quickly catching up in terms of capability, but if OpenAI has special chips their competitors don’t have access to, then they have an edge. Obviously, this can’t really be distinguished from Sam just trying to maximize his own ambitions, but it doesn’t necessarily undercut safety goals either.
Sam is not pitching special chips for OpenAI here, right?
I do not read safety goals into this project, which sounds more like it’s “make there be many more fabs distributed around the world for more chips and decreased centralization”. (Which, fwiw, erodes options for containing specialized chips.)
Wouldn’t Sam selling large amounts of chips to OAI’s direct competitors constitute a conflict of interest? It also doesn’t seem like something he would want to do, since he seems very devoted to OAI’s success, for better or worse. Why would he want to increase decentralization?