{"id":16616,"date":"2025-12-09T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/sam-altmans-firing-at-openai-reflects-schism-over-future-of-ai-development\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:59:22","slug":"sam-altmans-firing-at-openai-reflects-schism-over-future-of-ai-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/sam-altmans-firing-at-openai-reflects-schism-over-future-of-ai-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman&#8217;s firing at OpenAI reflects schism over future of AI development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgengine.khaleejtimes.com\/khaleejtimes\/import\/images\/CMnqMvAZKxsX65wQVKZE98ogadM.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=800&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"\" height=\"3585\" width=\"5378\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact.<\/p>\n<p>On one side are those, like Altman, who view the rapid development and, especially, public deployment of AI as essential to stress-testing and perfecting the technology. On the other side are those who say the safest path forward is to fully develop and test AI in a laboratory first to ensure it is, so to speak, safe for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Altman, 38, was fired on Friday from the company that created the popular ChatGPT chatbot. To many, he was considered the human face of generative AI.<\/p>\n<p>Some caution the hyper-intelligent software could become uncontrollable, leading to catastrophe &#8211; a concern among tech workers who follow a social movement called \u201ceffective altruism,\u201d who believe AI advances should benefit humanity. Among those sharing such&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/business\/sam-altmans-firing-at-openai-reflects-schism-over-future-of-ai-development\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact. On one side are those, like Altman, who view the rapid development and, especially, public deployment of AI as essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","category-business-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}