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Inside OpenAI, a rift between billionaires and altruistic researchers unravelled over the future of artificial intelligence
In the past week, a chaotic battle has played out at one of Silicon Valley's foremost tech companies over the future of artificial intelligence.
On one side were the men who hold the keys to some of the most advanced generative AI in the world, backed by multi-billion-dollar investors.
- Lucy Sweeney and Emily Clark
- ABC
On the other were a handful of entrepreneurs who fear these systems could bring an end to humanity if the industry is allowed to speed into the future with no regulatory handbrakes.
The tech world watched as the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, abruptly sacked its CEO only to bring him back and dump half the…