Elon Musks only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race | TechCrunch

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  • Elon Musk is trying to shut down OpenAI's for-profit AI business.
  • His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety and lost its way in pursuit of lucre.
  • The only expert witness to speak directly to AI technology was Stuart Russell, a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor.
  • Russell has long been a critic of the arms-race dynamic created by frontier labs around the globe competing to reach AGI first and called for governments to regulate the field more tightly.
When do we take AI doomers seriously? Thats a key subtext of Elon Musks attempt to shut down OpenAIs forprofit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity foc [+3515 chars]

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