Thread by @sama

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

@natseckatrina who leads some of our national security work is going to jump in to answer some of your questions

@boazbaraktcs is also going to help out with answers!

Three general things from this AMA:

1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but…I don’t. This seems like an important area for more discussion.

2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven’t seen quite articulated: What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAI or other AI efforts? I obviously don’t know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn’t seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important.

3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don’t think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen.

Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here. It was not what I expected.

I have to go do something for awhile but can answer more questions tonight.