Anthropic · OpenAI · Sam Altman · Instagram · ChatGPT · The Guardian Technology
There are signs over the past year that the AI industry is shifting its rhetoric as it grapples with widespread
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OpenAI and Anthropic have meanwhile both announced funds and thinktanks this year aimed at helping civil institutions adapt to AI, with OpenAI’s non-profit organization committing $250m to grants for programs that help workers navigate AI upheaval.
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- OpenAI and Anthropic have meanwhile both announced funds and thinktanks this year aimed at helping civil institutions adapt to AI, with OpenAI’s non-profit organization committing $250m to grants
- Suddenly, it’s okay to hate your computer,” read a New York Magazine cover story from 1995 on the “New Luddites
- SpaceX revealed in its IPO filing earlier this year that it paid $4m last year to Musk’s private security firm, double what it had spent only two years
- When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI ’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house, authorities found an anti- AI manifesto alongside
Summary
When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI ’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house, authorities found an anti- AI manifesto alongside his lighter and a jug of kerosene. In April, an Italian “nature pilled” Instagram influencer was arrested in Rome and charged with plotting a series of anti-tech attacks that took inspiration from Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski. The growing public backlash to the tech industry’s rapid rollout of artificial intelligence has taken many, mostly-non violent forms such as local communities organizing against datacenters and political candidates promising increased oversight. “AI is becoming this driver of political violence, and that’s a new phenomenon,” said Jordyn Abrams, a researcher at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.