Helen Toner, Former Advisor at OpenAI: “Even if AI Doesn’t Go Any Further, Its Impact Is Already Like the Internet”

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Helen Toner’s 33-year-old (born in Melbourne, Australia) has been a long and agitated relationship with the AI. Her key moment was her entry into the OpenAI board in 2021, but rather because of her departure, shortly after voting for Sam Altman’s dismissal as executive president in November 2023. Toner declines in this interview to talk about that experience in ChatGPT’s creative company, but has already told her opinion: Altman was not honest w…