Karen Hao compares AI industry competition to Western colonialism, questions OpenAI's original mission
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Journalist Karen Hao, a close observer of OpenAI since 2019, argues that the fierce competition between major AI companies mirrors the scramble for money and power seen in Western colonialism. She notes that OpenAI's original nonprofit, mission-driven purpose was strategically convenient at its founding, allowing it to attract talent that might otherwise choose Google, but that the company's trajectory has shifted as the AI race intensifies.
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In its earliest stages, OpenAI could not hope to outgun the much larger Google with big salaries to attract the talent it needed to get an edge in the race to develop artificial intelligence
But they could say, do you want to work for a faceless
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