‘Permanent dystopia’: Former OpenAI researcher warns of ‘reckless race’ for AI control



AI development companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind are in a "reckless race" to build smarter AI systems that may soon become an “army of geniuses.” While that may seem like a good idea to those behind the technology, it might spell disaster for mankind.

“It’s going to be very thrilling — and also very scary,” former OpenAI researcher and AI Futures Project Executive Director Daniel Kokotajlo tells Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“It’s the stated intention of the CEOs of these companies to eventually build superintelligence,” he continues, noting that “superintelligence is fully autonomous AI systems that are better than humans at absolutely everything.”

“That sounds like a movie that we’ve all seen,” Glenn comments, concerned.


“They totally have seen those movies,” Kokotajlo says of those behind the push for superintelligence. “And they totally think, yes, it could go really bad. In fact, that’s part of the founding story of some of these companies.”

“Lots of people at these companies, especially early on, basically had similar thoughts of, ‘Wow, this is going to be the biggest thing ever. If it goes well, it could be the best thing that ever happens. If it goes poorly, it could literally kill everyone or do something similarly catastrophic like lead to a permanent dystopia,’” he continues.

One major issue that could lead to the latter is that those who end up running these companies or are in high-up positions at them are not the ones who are concerned about where this is all headed.

Those who are concerned — like Kokotajlo — are the ones who quit who walked away from millions in equity.

Kokotajlo tells Glenn that he walked away when he was told there was going to be a large focus on addressing questions like, "How do we make sure that we can control the AI when they’re smarter than us?” As time went on, he noticed there was little to no effort being put toward addressing these questions.

“That's just an example of the sort of thing that made me quit,” he explains. “We’re going to build anyway, even though we don’t understand it, don’t know how to control it, and, you know, it’s going to be a disaster. That’s basically what caused me to leave.”

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'What did you do last week?' Elon melts feds' brains with BASIC request



Elon Musk isn’t giving President Donald Trump any reasons to believe he’s not taking his job of rooting out government waste seriously.

And when Trump recently posted a message to Musk on Truth Social, he heard him loud and clear.

“ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!” Trump wrote — in all caps of course — in his Truth Social post.

In response to the post, Musk sent an email to a mass of government employees asking them to answer one simple question: “What did you do last week?”


“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk wrote in a post on X.

“To be clear, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write,” he wrote in a follow-up post.

“His point, he said, was that there are a lot of people, federal workers, who are so far removed from even working that they aren’t even checking their email. And so, the point of the email was if you get this, you’re going to respond, it doesn't really matter what you respond with, we’re just trying to see that you respond,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” explains.

“And so that was Elon Musk’s more aggressive stance to root out all of this redundancy and waste in the federal government,” she continues. “I didn’t hate it.”

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