Considerateness in OpenAI LP Debate

Yesterday, OpenAI announced OpenAI LP: “a new “capped-profit” company that allows [them] to rapidly increase [their] investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize [their] mission.”

Here is how the ML community reacted:

Multiple things happening here:

1) Open AI LP is interpreted as “bait-and-switch”/“screw non-profit”

2) Claiming to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is mocked

I won’t be defending OpenAI LP in this post. Instead, I will point to several resources and everyone is invited to form his/her own opinion.

Against OpenAI’s mission:

• The implausibility of intelligence explosion (François Chollet, Nov. 2017)
• How Could Machines Learn Like Animals & Humans? (Yann LeCun, March 2018)

slide 130 from Yann LeCun’s deck

Neutral to OpenAI’s mission:

• US Congressional Hearing on AGI (June 2018):

Pro OpenAI’s mission

• Three Comment Threads on HN (look for comments from Greg Brockman (gdb) and Ilya Sutskever (ilyasut)).
• Literature Review(2018) on safe Artificial General Intelligence
• Comments from Miles Brundage (Research Scientist in Policy at OpenAI):