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“Whenever someone wrote a paper which talked about some negative aspect of A.I., he would say, ‘We’re not going to release something about a problem until we have a solution for it,’” said an employee who worked with Mr. Lehane, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Lehane characterized his approach differently: He wanted the economists on OpenAI’s global affairs team to “inform smart public-policy making,” not conduct “niche” academic research.
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And what if we don’t act? What if we “let technology rip”? What if millions of people do lose their jobs to A.I., and nobody puts up the money or policy solutions to help them? In March, the Palantir chief executive, Alex Karp, spoke on a panel with the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien. “The biggest challenge to A.I. in this country is political unrest,” Mr. Karp said. “If I were sitting here in private with my peers, I’d be telling them the country could blow up politically and none of us are going to make any money when the country blows up.”
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