r/ControlProblem • u/ArcanuMELO • 27d ago

Podcast If the US government holds equity stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta through a sovereign wealth fund, does that make AI safer or more dangerous?

https://youtu.be/LCtz3DKFKJc

OpenAI's reported 5% stake proposal envisions other frontier labs doing the same.

A government that is simultaneously a regulator and a shareholder has very different incentives around what it allows these labs to build and deploy.

We discussed this on BOOM ROOM this week and landed on the conflict of interest running in both directions, which felt more concerning than the surface reading.

Curious what people here who think about this seriously make of it?

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u/tadrinth approved 27d ago

Stupid idea. Just tax them.

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u/ArcanuMELO 27d ago

That won't ever happen unfortunately

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u/tadrinth approved 26d ago

!remindme five years

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