AGI Is Good for Humanity. It's a Problem for Your Network.
The optimistic version of artificial general intelligence is not hard to imagine. A world where disease gets solved faster, energy is abundant, and human labor shifts toward things humans actually want to do. Gene Roddenberry built a franchise on that premise. The technology trajectory Altman describes follows a logical endpoint: compounding capability with no ceiling in sight. The destination is fine. The transition is where the damage happens. The Operator in the Room Altman’s role at OpenAI is operational: he decides when to ship. In 2022, OpenAI’s leadership was debating whether to release ChatGPT at all, arguing for a more powerful version. Altman pushed to go. ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and reached 800 million weekly users. The timing was his call. ...