2023-11-26 20:14:06
Artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence: from fascination to concerndossierThe Australian researcher, a supporter of a slow but sure development of artificial intelligence, was ousted from the company’s board of directors for her role the dismissal of the one whose vision of the AI opposed his.
In September 2021, OpenAI has a lot to be excited about. The start-up which has not yet invented ChatGPT announces the arrival of an international player on its board of directors. Helen Toner, a high-flying Australian researcher, arrives in the company created by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Helen Toner, in her thirties, was then director of strategy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown, a reference body in the field. In her luggage, she also brings her knowledge of the Chinese ecosystem of artificial intelligence (on which she wrote a study for the University of Oxford) and she arrives crowned with her status as an expert consulted by the American government. . In short, a nice recruitment for OpenAI. “Helen brings an understanding of the global AI landscape with a focus on security, which is essential to our efforts and our mission,” Sam Altman praised her at the time.
Two years later, the lovemaking is over. “And now we will all rest,” he took the liberty of tweeting Helen Toner Wednesday, November 22 after one of those crazy sagas that Silicon Valley loves. She had just been ousted from the board she had joined with so much honor, like the two other members who committed the sin of dismissing OpenAI’s number one. If the precise reasons for the cabal against Altman remain
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