📌 TOPINDIATOURS Eksklusif ai: Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a guest of dishonor at an after-Oscars bash last Sunday, after being viciously confronted about his company’s deal with the so-called Department of War, Page Six reports.

The party, hosted by Vanity Fair, was attended by A-listers like Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet, and other celebrities including Kylie Jenner, Teyana Taylor, and Zoe Saldaña. 

Why Altman, a tech guy, was invited in the first place is an open question, though we’d wager it has something to do with how he’s openly been trying to court Hollywood executives for years now, even angling to break into the motion picture industry himself by backing an AI-animated feature film.

At least one famous attendee wasn’t happy to see Altman showing his face: the lauded playwright and screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris. Harris, who won a Tony Award for “Slave Play” and co-wrote the indie film “Zola,” reportedly made a bee-line for Altman and accused him of being the “[Joseph] Goebbels of the Trump administration” for his deal with the Pentagon.

Altman responded calmly, sources told Page Six..

Goebbels, as you may well know, was the Nazi’s regime’s minister of propaganda under Adolf Hitler. What does that have to do with Altman? In an email to Page Six, Harris apologized — for comparing Altman to the wrong Nazi collaborator.

“It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick,” Harris stated.

Flick was an uber-rich German industrialist who became the Nazi regime’s biggest supplier with his business empire spanning iron, steel, coal, cars, chemicals, aircraft, and arms. At the Nuremberg Trials, he was found guilty of war crimes; his trial focused on his use of Russian slave labor at his businesses during the war.

In Harris’s view, Altman is similarly colluding with a war-mongering government. In late February, OpenAI sparked outrage after announcing a new deal with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI systems across the military. Hardly a day passed after Altman’s announcement when the Trump administration ordered a barrage of deadly airstrikes in Iran that killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei — and, to date, upwards of 1,000 civilians. 

Making Altman look even worse was that OpenAI’s rival Anthropic had refused to cut a deal with the military to give it unrestricted access to its AI, despite weighty threats from the administration that included a government seizure of its tech. The backlash was so widespread that Anthropic’s Claude replaced OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the top of the app store, protests raged outside the former company’s headquarters, and hundreds of its employees signed an open letter demanding their employer refuse to the Pentagon’s demands for unfettered access to its AI systems.

In the week that followed, Altman went into full damage control mode; he publicly apologized for the Pentagon deal being “rushed,” and behind the scenes, he defended his decision on collaborating with the military at an all-hands meeting. He also updated the agreement to emphasize the redlines Anthropic had insisted on before negotiations fell through: a restriction against using AI in autonomous weaponry without humans in the loop and in the mass surveillance of US citizens.

The fallout of Altman’s military deal isn’t over yet, evidently. A top OpenAI executive, Caitlin Kalinowski, quit the company in protest of Altman’s rushed deal, which she criticized for not defining key guardrails around its AI tech.

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📌 TOPINDIATOURS Hot ai: OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which J

While the ability of AI tools to steam engine entire human occupations remains a subject of heated debate, a sobering reality is starting to settle in.

Big tech companies are laying off workers in the thousands, with CEOs expecting the worst and predicting soaring employment rates among college graduates — while gleefully cutting costs at their companies and not looking back.

Consequently, the subject of which jobs will be at the highest risk of being made redundant by AI tech has received intense interest. Most recently, Andrej Karpathy — an OpenAI cofounder, former AI exec at Tesla, and inventor of “vibe coding” — used Bureau of Labor Statistics data and a heavy dose of AI to rate jobs on a scale of zero to ten, where zero is safe from AI, and 10 is most exposed.

After his interactive chart drew plenty of attention, as Fortune notes, Karpathy got cold feet and pulled it down (though an archived version can still be seen here).

“This was a Saturday morning two hour vibe coded project inspired by a book I’m reading,” he tweeted on Sunday. “I thought the code/data might be helpful to others to explore the BLS dataset visually, or color it in different ways or with different prompts or add their own visualizations.”

“It’s been wildly misinterpreted (which I should have anticipated even despite the readme docs), so I took it down,” he added.

“The ‘exposure’ was scored by an LLM based on how digital the job is. This has no bearing on what actually happens to these occupations, which has to do with demand elasticity and a lot more,” Karpathy explained in followup. “People are sensationalizing the visualization tool and putting words in my mouth.”

While we should certainly take his findings with a heavy dose of salt — AI models still suffer from widespread hallucinations and Karpathy himself maintains we should only use vibe coding for rapid iterations and “throwaway weekend projects” — the data tells an all-too-familiar story. Occupations such as construction laborers, janitors, electricians, barbers, and bartenders, may largely be in the clear, whereas accountants, office clerks, customer service reps, and software developers could be the hardest hit.

That’s more or less the conclusion of AI company Anthropic’s own investigation into the matter as well. Earlier this month, the company released its latest findings about the “labor market impacts of AI.” The company’s researchers found that computer programmers, customer service reps, data entry keyers, medical record specialists, and market research analysts were at the highest risk, or “most exposed” to AI.

But whether employment levels are about to be driven off a cliff thanks to the rampant use of generative AI at the workplace remains debatable. As Anthropic points out in its report, “AI is far from reaching its theoretical capability” and “actual coverage remains a fraction of what’s feasible.”

Tech leaders who are conducting mass layoffs and citing AI to justify them have also been accused of trying to distract from corporate bloat and past overhiring, which critics say is the real reason for the job losses.

But if executives are to be believed, the scale of job losses could be staggering. ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, for instance, told CNBC last week that he expects unemployment for new college graduates to reach over 30 percent.

In short, as Karpathy’s vibe-coded project hints at, white-collar jobs are facing an existential threat, while more hands-on and often lower-paying occupations could end up surviving the storm — a conclusion that likely won’t be of much consolation to those in the midst of their post-secondary education in software development, accounting, or business administration.

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