The Guardian view on OpenAI’s board shake-up: changes deliver more for shareholders than for humanity | Editorial

The Guardian view on OpenAI’s board shake-up: changes deliver more for shareholders than for humanity | Editorial

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/26/the-guardian-view-on-openais-board-shake-up-changes-deliver-more-for-shareholders-than-for-humanity

The development of supersmart AI needs careful handling – and that probably won’t be made easier by a bout of corporate chaos

In the 1983 movie WarGames, the US defence department runs a superintelligent central computer that is hacked into by a teenager, who unwittingly almost causes a nuclear Armageddon. The end of the world is averted when the computer, known as Joshua, learns, after playing tic-tac-toe with the teenager, that nuclear war cannot have a winner. The insight causes him to rescind missile launch orders with the comment: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”