How the company convinced everyone that AGI is inevitable—and that they need to be the ones who control it.

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Episode Notes

OpenAI started as a non-profit dedicated to building safe A.I. Now, they’re obsessed with building artificial general intelligence by any means necessary - even if they don’t quite know what that is.

Guest: Karen Hao, reporter and author of “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI”

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort.