Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence

Digg reports that The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's forthcoming book The AGI Chronicles.[2] In a post on X, Roose called the feud "the central beef of the AI era: the feud between Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, who have hated each other for years."[3]AI Weekly reports that the book draws on more than 150 interviews at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, plus unpublished company documents and research memos.[1]According to The Next Web, in December 2017 Amodei emailed Brockman, Sutskever and other executives to object[4] to the plan. An OpenAI spokesperson told Roose that the company "did not consider selling AGI to China or Russia."[4] The Next Web also reports that OpenAI dropped the plan after it found funding from Microsoft.[4]The Next Web says Roose writes that Amodei kept a list of times he felt Altman had misled him.[4] Digg reports that Amodei came to see Altman as "a two-faced manipulator"[2].According to The Next Web, two people told Roose that Altman offered Kanye West access to the private GPT-3 beta in 2020. Jack Clark, then OpenAI's policy director, stopped it.[4]KuCoin News reports that Amodei and six colleagues created a private Slack channel called "BATNA"[5].The Next Web says Roose writes that Dario and Daniela Amodei "still despise" Altman and Brockman, according to several people who know them[4]. The outlet adds that some people at OpenAI describe the Amodeis as "power-hungry virtue-signalers"[4].