[angst]

“I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI.”

- Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder, co-lead of Superalignment Team , Departed early 2024

- May 15, 2025, The Atlantic

Anyway, I concur it's a hard choice as one other comment mentions.

[godelski]

Is this a button any one person should have their finger on?

[moffkalast]

They don't make buttons large enough for multiple people to press. It's always going to be someone in the end.

[TFYS]

Exactly. AGI is something that will significantly affect all of humanity. It should be treated like nuclear weapons.

[beng-nl]

Good point. I like George Hotz’ philosophy on this - paraphrasing badly - if everyone has AI, nobody can be subjugated by AI.

[8note]

its a button everyone should have finger on. if you can get it to do something good, go for it?

[energy123]

I want Sam to win more than I do Zuck, just based on the proven negativity generated by Meta. I don't want that individual or that company anywhere near additional capital, power, capability or influence.

[latexr]

The hypocrite who violates everyone else’s privacy to sell ads, or the scammer who collects eyeballs in exchange for cryptocurrency and whose “product” has been banned in multiple countries…

Yeah, there’s no good choice here. You should be rooting for neither. Best case scenario is they destroy each other with as little collateral damage as possible.

[baq]

Between the trio of Thiel, Zuck and sama I’d pick the fourth option - I don’t want to be on that train anymore

[btheunissen]

At the start of the “LLM boom” I was optimistic that OAI/Anthropic were in a position finally unseat the Big 4 in at least this area. Now I’m convinced the only winners are going to be Google, Meta, Amazon, and we are right back to where we started.

[richardatlarge]

Yes, I’ve never seen a more sociopathic company than Meta. They are so true to the cliched ethos of “you are the product.” Sickens me that society has facilitated the rise of such banality of evil

[raverbashing]

Does any of those OpenAI spinoffs have something to show already or are they still "raising money"

[WJW]

Even if it's zero, he could still be a shitty person who shouldn't have access to that button. If anyone should have such access at all, of course.

[Gigablah]

Is that the du jour unit of measurement for morality now?

[renewiltord]

I suppose as an American taxpayer and American voter, he is responsible for as many ethnic cleansings as anyone else. Supposedly, Armenians leaving Nagorno-Karabakh is ethnic cleansing, and the US did give aid to Azerbaijian so that makes Americans facilitators of ethnic cleansing, though admittedly so are the Canadians.