Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Testifies Before Congress on AI Oversight
OpenAI CEO Testifies Before Congress on AI Oversight
Sam Altman, the co-founder of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, testified before Congress on artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and its risks. "The Hash" panel discusses the key...
OpenAI CEO Testifies Before Congress on AI Oversight

Sam Altman’s Crypto Project in Talks for $100M in New Funding: Report
Sam Altman’s Crypto Project in Talks for $100M in New Funding: Report
Altman’s crypto project, Worldcoin, rose to prominence last year with a controversial, Silicon Valley vision for a universal basic income (UBI): a crypto token that can be dis...
Sam Altman’s Crypto Project in Talks for $100M in New Funding: Report

Sam Altman’s Crypto Project, Worldcoin, Unveils First Major Consumer Product
Sam Altman’s Crypto Project, Worldcoin, Unveils First Major Consumer Product
Worldcoin, the crypto project from Sam Altman, the co-founder of ChatGPT developer Open AI, has launched a native crypto wallet built on the Ethereum sidechain Polygon called...
Sam Altman’s Crypto Project, Worldcoin, Unveils First Major Consumer Product

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Web2’s Lesson for AI: Decentralize to Protect Humanity
In order to prevent the potentially destructive impact of AI on humanity, we need open-source innovation and collective governance that is possible through blockchain protocol...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky's "AI Safety" movement has gazed into the distant future - and decided you shouldn't be allowed to have privacy in the present. (Wikimedia Commons)
AI Boosters Would Sacrifice Humanity for a Simulacra - as Long as They're in Control
AI boosterism and associated “long-termist” ideas may be a threat to your privacy, property and civil rights.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's "AI Safety" movement has gazed into the distant future - and decided you shouldn't be allowed to have privacy in the present. (Wikimedia Commons)

Silicon Valley's AI road map implies a future authoritarian dystopia. Distributed AI projects managed by blockchains suggest an alternative path forward. (Getty Images)
What’s the Relationship Between Crypto and AI? Is There Any?
Distributed AI projects such as SingularityNET want composable artificial intelligence managed through public blockchains. That's far preferable to Silicon Valley's corporate...
Silicon Valley's AI road map implies a future authoritarian dystopia. Distributed AI projects managed by blockchains suggest an alternative path forward. (Getty Images)

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Crypto Wallet Tracker Context Raises $19.5M in Funding Round
The round was co-led by Variant Fund and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
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Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 4, 2021
With altcoins stabilizing near recent all-time-highs and a look at what went wrong with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Traders Are ‘Apeing’ Into a Sam Altman Crypto Lookalike, Driving Prices Higher
Prices for a completely different Worldcoin have climbed 68.4% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data.
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Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb
Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb
Former Y Combinator President Sam Altman’s Worldcoin has raised $25 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Coinbase Ventures. Valued at $1 billion, th...
Worldcoin, Now Valued at $1B, Has Grand Plans to Get You to Gaze Into the Orb