Larry Summers Says OpenAI Technology ‘Extraordinarily Important’
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Larry Summers, a new board member at artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, said that the startup's work was “extraordinarily important” and that the company needed to operate as a “corporation with a conscience.” OpenAI “has to be prepared to cooperate with key government officials on regulatory issues, on national security issues, on development of technology issues,” Summers said on Bloomberg Television's Wall Street Week with David Westin on Friday. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The remarks shed light on what Summers, a former US treasury secretary, plans to work on at the Silicon Valley startup. Summers officially joined OpenAI's board this week, not long after the company descended into a chaotic leadership battle that riveted Silicon Valley. On Nov. 17, the com...