Advanced AI keeps Sundar Pichai up at night and makes Sam Altman a bit scared. Here's why some tech execs are wary of its potential dangers.

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Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai.

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Elon Musk says he's planning to create a 'maximum truth-seeking AI' that he likes to call 'TruthGPT'

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Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: Letter from Elon Musk, others calling for AI development pause 'lacked technical nuance'

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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew just cracked the Time 100 Most Influential People list for the first time

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OpenAI's Sam Altman and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew have come under scrutiny for ChatGPT and TikTok, respectively.

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A future 'God-like AI' could destroy humans or make them obsolete if not properly contained, a prolific AI investor warned

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Elon Musk's AI ambitions for Twitter show that some of the people calling for the tech to 'pause' seem to be acting out of their own self-interest

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Elon Musk recently called for a 'pause' to AI development while society considered the ramifications. But Insider reports that Twitter, owned by Musk, is spending millions to get in on the generative AI boom.

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Elon Musk reportedly once insulted an OpenAI intern after he questioned his decision to pursue AGI tech at Tesla

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Elon Musk.

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

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Sam Altman and Robert Oppenheimer, pointing to a picture of a mushroom cloud.

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ChatGPT banned by regulator in Italy, which says there's no legal basis for using personal data to train the chatbot following data breach

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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.

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Salesforce employees are not happy

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