What’s keeping Sam Altman up at night?

Talking to the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently, Altman, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Open AI, was only half-joking when he said he hadn’t “had a good night’s sleep since ChatGPT launched” in November 2022. On his mind were the “very small decisions” his company makes that can affect millions of people. He was speaking in the context of a flurry of reports on the sometimes tragic consequences of mentally unwell people turning to ChatGPT for help.

But it’s surely not the only issue swirling around in Altman’s thoughts when he lays down his weary head. To put it mildly, there is a lot coming over the hill for OpenAI for the rest of this year and beyond. None of these struggles looks particularly threatening in isolation. C

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