In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 because, he said, he was trying to think about how to bring artificial intelligence into the world democratically.
“We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board,” Mr. Altman told The New Yorker. “Because if I weren’t in on this I’d be, like, ‘Why do these fuckers get to decide what happens to me?’”
No such world-governance board was ever established. There has been no A.I. constitutional convention.
These, er, fellows, are still deciding what happens to the rest of us. This summer Mr. Altman said that he guessed that pretty soon most of the planet will be covered in data centers — perhaps Earth will resemble the Imperial Death Star — or “maybe we put them in space”?
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