Sam Altman compared the scale of OpenAI with the Manhattan Project and quoted Oppenheimer in 2019, report says

Mon, 04/03/2023 - 08:30

Sam Altman and Robert Oppenheimer points to a picture of a mushroom cloud. — Sam Altman and Robert Oppenheimer, pointing to a picture of a mushroom cloud.
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Sam Altman compared OpenAI's ambitions with the scale of the Manhattan Project in 2019, per the NYT.
He paraphrased Robert Oppenheimer with his belief that AI must progress despite the risks.
"Am I doing something good? Or really bad?" the CEO reportedly said.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman previously compared the scale of his company to the Manhattan Project – codename for the US government's project to produce the first nuclear bomb in World War II, per The New York Times.