Did Money Corrupt an A.I. Utopia?

OpenAI was founded in 2015 with a billion dollars and an idealistic mission: Create artificial intelligence that could address humanity’s biggest problems, and do it out in the open. Then came the money problems.

Guest: Karen Hao, senior A.I. reporter at MIT Tech Review

Host

Lizzie O’Leary

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