No, Sam Altman Cannot Be Trusted

I've seen a headline come up recently for a New Yorker article: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

I haven't read the article, but, I can answer the question, and the answer is no.

This is a guy who justified the energy usage from training Large Language Models by comparing it to the energy needed to raise a human being.

One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query. But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human.

It takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes, like, 20 years of life, and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.

You cannot trust a for-profit company to begin with (they're for-profit, not for-people), and you especially can't trust one with a leader who says fucked up stuff like that.