Just another billionaires' battle of egos or does the 150-billion dollar lawsuit that pits Elon Musk against Sam Altman go to the heart of how artificial intelligence could determine the future of humanity? We’ll ask about the origin story of OpenAI, founded by some of Silicon Valley’s leading luminaries as a non-profit organization that would put innovation at the service of a socially-responsible AI that wouldn’t destroy the planet... the growing pains and fallouts that followed... leading up to the launch of ChatGPT and OpenAI's alliance with Microsoft.
Is there an air of inevitability in this tale of ambition? Is it human nature that profit eventually comes before safety, particularly when investors want a return on their record sums? A ruling in California against Altman could scuttle the transformation of OpenAI from non-profit to publicly traded company. We’ve seen this movie before - literally. The 2010 film The Social Network chronicled the ambitions and betrayals surrounding the rise of Facebook. Since then, the stakes have risen exponentially. Gone are the days when tech titans mused about effective altruism. The big question: does the rest of the planet watch passively as the United States moves towards less, not more regulation at the dawn of an era where machines are sure to upend the way we work, think and live.
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Guillaume Gougeon, Charles Wente.
Our guests
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Tariq KRIM Tech entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and founder of Jolicloud
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Marietje SCHAAKE Fellow, Stanford University; Author, The Tech Coup
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Bernard BENHAMOU Secretary General, Institute of Digital Sovereignty
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