Elon Musk said helping create OpenAI accidentally accelerated the AI race, which ‘wasn’t really’ his intention

Business Insider· 2h ago· 4 min read

Elon Musk said that helping create OpenAI had unintended consequences he didn't expect, which accelerated the AI race. Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Elon Musk said that helping create OpenAI had unintended consequences he didn't expect. Musk said that Anthropic's creation from OpenAI accelerated the AI race. Musk said competitors should be allowed to review each other's models for risks before launch. Elon Musk says one of his biggest efforts to slow the concentration of AI power may have had the opposite effect. Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor in chief, the xAI founder said he originally helped create OpenAI as "essentially a counterweight to Google" when the tech giant "had more or less a monopoly on AI," but it did not go as he had expected. "In creating OpenAI and then having Anthropic spin out of that, and now currently Anthropics is leader in AI, I mean, these actions have actually resulted in knock-on effects that accelerated AI, which wasn't really my

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