, Columnist
OpenAI Is Shattering Big Tech's Promises of a Better World
The company’s latest evolution is a red flag about Silicon Valley’s obsession with “mission.”
What mission?
Source: Bloomberg
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At a recent tech industry event, a software engineer approached me and said he was in the middle of looking for a job, and that the next company he worked for needed something special: a mission.
Silicon Valley — and the tech industry more generally — has long maintained an ethos of saving the world. The belief is so prevalent that it was mocked on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” in a montage of startup founders all promising to “make the world a better place” with their ultra-niche product or service.