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The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All

An artificial intelligence Twitter beef, explained. 

The OpenAI logo arranged on a laptop in Beijing, China, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The rally in Chinese artificial intelligence stocks is showing further signs of cooling amid media reports of authorities banning access to OpenAI's ChatGPT service.
The OpenAI logo arranged on a laptop in Beijing, China, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The rally in Chinese artificial intelligence stocks is showing further signs of cooling amid media reports of authorities banning access to OpenAI's ChatGPT service.Bloomberg

As the tech industry marches toward ever more dazzling artificial intelligence technology, there’s one unavoidable question for humanity: Is this good news, or bad news?

In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but powerful group of people who believe it could be very, very bad news — and that AI, if not handled correctly, could wipe out humanity within a couple decades. There’s also a crowd who thinks our AI future will be amazing — bringing about untold future capabilities, abundance and utopia.