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Fwd: congrats on the falcon 9

Ilya Sutskever to Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, January 2, 2016

Sutskever replies to the email Musk forwarded about open-sourcing AI.

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From
Ilya Sutskever
Sent
Saturday, January 2, 2016 9:06 AM
To
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman
Subject
Fwd: congrats on the falcon 9
The article is concerned with a hard takeoff scenario: if a hard takeoff occurs, and a safe AI is harder to build than an unsafe one, then by opensorucing everything, we make it easy for someone unscrupulous with access to overwhelming amount of hardware to build an unsafe AI, which will experience a hard takeoff. As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).
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The whole thread

  1. Jan 2, 2016 [redacted] Hi Elon Happy new year to you, [redacted]! Congratulations on landing the Falcon 9, what an amazing…
  2. Jan 2, 2016 Ilya Sutskever The article is concerned with a hard takeoff scenario: if a hard takeoff occurs, and a safe AI is harder to…
  3. Jan 2, 2016 Elon Musk Yup