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Technical journalist Karen Hao’s new book, Ai Empire: Dreams and Nightmares Sam Altman Openi (published by Penguin Press), examining the defense of Silicon Valley billionaires and his artificial intelligence, which technology businessman Elon Musk called “the greatest threat” to humanity. [Musk has simultaneously promoted his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, and chatbot, Grok.]
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CHAPTER 1
Divine law
Everyone else came, but Elon Musk was late as usual. It was 2015. Summer, and a group of men gathered for a private dinner at Sam Altman’s invitation to discuss the future of humanity.
Musk had met with Altman, fourteen years of his junior, for a while earlier and had a good impression. President of the famous Silicon Valley Startup accelerator Y compound, altman’s reputation against him. When he started his first company at the age of nineteen, he quickly established himself in the Silicon Valley as a great strategist and a transaction manufacturer with great ambitions, even for the big conviction founders. Musk acknowledged that he was smart, powered and, most importantly, one who supported a similar approach to the need to thoroughly develop and manage artificial intelligence. Musk seemed to describe Musk a year later, Altman reflected everything Musk ever said on the subject to win his confidence.
He often said that Musk was a childhood hero. After the older businessman showed him around the dilated SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, California, that admiration only deepened. “What sticks to memory was the absolute certainty of his face when he talked about sending large missiles to Mars,” Altman later wrote about his experience. “I have left to think” Huh, so it is a benchmark what belief looks like. “
Musk was very worried about Ai for a while. 2012 He met Demis Hasabi, Professor General of London Ai Lab Deepmind Technologies. Soon after, Hassabi also visited Musk at his SpaceX factory. When two men sat in the canteen, surrounded by the sounds of massive missile parts transported and collected, Hasabi increased the possibility of more advanced, one day that could one day exceed human intelligence, threatening humanity. In addition, Musk’s failure will not work in this scenario by colonizing Mars to escape. Care, Hasabi said to have fun, just follow people to the galaxy. Musk, definitely less cheerful, has invested $ 5 million in Deepmind to keep the company tabs.
Later, during his 2013 The birthday party in the lush landscapes of the wine -growing Napa Valley, Musk became involved in a fierce and emotional debate with his longtime friend and Google founder Larry Page, whether Ai surpassed human intelligence. The page did not think so, calling it another stage of evolution. When the musk was naked, the page accused him of a “specialist” discriminating against an inhuman species.
After that, Musk began to talk about the existential AI risk. At the MIT Symposium, he described Ai as probably the “greatest existential threat” to humanity and its development as “summoning a demon.” He met with publishers in New York, grabbed by the thought of writing his book about the threats of extinction, including Ai. Later, at the recurrent AI salon event in Stanford, a young researcher named Timnit Genr, after the interview, he would appear to him and asked why he was so obsessed with AI when the threat of climate change was more clearly existential. “Climate change is bad, but that doesn’t intend to kill everyone,” he said. “PG can disappear humanity.”
From the Ai Empire: Dreams and Nightmares Sam Altman’s Openai, created by Karen Hao, published Penguin Press, Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2025, Karen Hao.
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