Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence

According to AI Weekly, the book, 'The AGI Chronicles,' draws on more than 150 interviews at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, plus unpublished company documents and research memos.[2]The Next Web reports that, according to Roose, in 2017 OpenAI's Brockman and Sutskever pitched auctioning future AGI to governments including China and Russia.[3] An OpenAI spokesperson told Roose that the company "did not consider selling AGI to China or Russia"[3], the outlet adds.According to The Next Web, Amodei wrote in a December 2017 email that the plan "would undermine OpenAI's moral legitimacy."[3] The outlet also reports that Roose writes Amodei kept a list of times he felt Altman had misled him.[3]Digg reports that in Roose's account, Amodei came to see Altman as "a two-faced manipulator"[4] and Greg Brockman as "power-hungry and reckless."[4] According to The Next Web, two people told Roose that in 2020, Altman offered Kanye West access to the private GPT-3 beta[3]. The outlet says Jack Clark, then OpenAI's policy director, stopped it.[3]KuCoin News reports that Amodei and six colleagues created a private Slack channel called "BATNA"[5], which stands for Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement.According to The Next Web, Roose writes that the Amodeis "still despise" Altman and Brockman[3]. The outlet also says some people at OpenAI describe the Amodeis as "power-hungry virtue-signalers"[3].