Sam Altman may have just revealed why ‘smartest people’ at OpenAI quit to build their own AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently offered an explanation for why so many top researchers and executives – some of them co-founders – left the company to start their own artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. He hinted that when the stakes feel this high concerning a particular technology, people only trust themselves. In a recent exchange on Raj Shamani’s podcast, Altman was asked why there appears to be so much friction in the AI industry-, and why, despite OpenAI starting the AI wave, so many people are breaking away to build their own competing projects.
“I think there is something that happens in many people’s brains where they only trust themselves to build this because the stakes feel so high,” Altman said.
