AI leaders clash over safety and $100bn Stargate project

The biggest figures of artificial intelligence were confused about the risks of rapidly developing technologies during the World Economic Forum this week, as the noise was rotated by Donald Trump over the $ 500 billion AI infrastructure project.

AI’s pioneers, including Google Deepmind,, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amoday and the “AI’s Godfather” The competition is related to security. .

Although Hasabis admitted that “gin cannot be put back into the bottle,” he said. Artificial generality – When computers exceed a person’s cognitive capacity, they can threaten civilization if it comes out of control or abducted by bad actors. This is especially true for large linguistic models, which are “open source” and available to everyone.

“It is very more endangered here than just companies or products,” said the Nobel Laureate in an interview with Financial Times. “[It’s] The future of mankind, the human condition and where we want to go as a society. ”

Amodei whose startup makes a chat-bot claud and is provided by Google And Amazon said that it was worried about AI using authoritarian governments and “very worried about 1984 scenarios or worse.”

“Science does not know how we can manage cars, which are even on our intellect level, and even worse, if they are smarter than us,” added during the Benjion panel. “There are people who say don’t worry, we will find out. But if we don’t understand, you understand the consequences. ”

Their position was hypocritical to criticize Jan Lekun, the main scientist of Meta’s AI, who spent billions on LLM processing LLMA. He said such concerns have been denied to create the best models and sell his rivals due to the fierce competition of his rivals.

“Yoshuan and Dario expressed opinions with open source, and it is actually very dangerous,” he said in an interview. “Open sources of distribution of open source will lead to a control of several players, USA or China’s West Coast. . .[putting]The government in the hands of a small number of people.

“It’s very strange about people like Dario. We met yesterday where he said that the benefits and risks of AI were about the same size, and I said. “If you really believe in it, why do you continue to work on AI?” Added Leko. “So I think he is a little hypocrite in this matter.”

Before scientists and engineers were discussing the risk of artificial intellect, business leaders were free enthusiasm against technology.

“There are no opponents,” said Erwin House, chairman of the Dutch Prosus Technological Investment Group. “If you appreciate what the large language models and agents who have trained on them can be done.

The feverish atmosphere was added by Openai, SoftBank and Oracle on Wednesday announced a joint venture of the American artificial intelligence of $ 500 billion called “Star Gate”.

On Tuesday, Trump hosted their chief executives, Sam Altman, Masogoshi Soni and Larry Ellison, before signing the executive commands, which will remove many protective boxes on technology development. The new US President noted that these steps will provide American priority in technology.

“In Openai, we believe that infrastructure is a fate,” said Openai Chief Financial Director Sara Friaar. “[Stargate] is more about calculating. More calculations create better models. Better models respond to more complex problems and benefit people and businesses. “

The “Star Gate” prevailed in the Davos debate in the rest of the week, where many, including Ilo Mask, visited his “X” social network to question how the trio was. The promised huge expenses of the promised.

FT reported on Friday that Stargate has not yet provided the necessary funding, will not receive state funding and will only serve Openai after completion. So far, Softbank and Openai intend to provide $ 15 billion more than $ 15 billion, hoping to collect equity from their current sponsors and debt to finance Stargate.

The new venture was also adopted as the last testimony of the CEO of Mustafa Suliman, Executive Director of Altman and Microsoft :

“Tensions between Mustafa Suleyman and Sam Altman in Davos last year,” said Salesforce’s executive director Mark Benof, who competes with Microsoft to sell businesses working on AI.

“Microsoft now accelerates its own AI’s development. . . This pattern reflects Microsoft’s history with its “partners”, “Benof added. “This can mean the beginning of the completion of the relationship, which is very important to quickly expand other platforms for Openai.”

“Mark has no idea what he is talking about,” said Microsoft spokesperson Frank Show.

Microsoft Since 2019, he has invested nearly $ 14 billion in Openai and has negotiated its own intellectual property rights and its exceptionally cloud computing supplier. However, the recent agreement was severed in parallel with the Stargate statement.

In Davos, Nadela also questioned the promises of STARGATE expenditures and raised $ 80 billion in Microsoft’s planned capital.

“I only know that I’m good for my 80 billion dollars,” he said later responding to Masskin on social media X platform. “And all this money is not for artificial intellect hypting, but to build useful things for the real world.”

Stargate is only the latest example of infrastructure arms race for data centers in the United States, as it is preparing for the next stage of the AI ​​economic boom. Mask Xai has built a Supercomputer called “Colosus” Contains 100,000 interconnected NVIDIA chips last three months last year and promised to expand their number 10 times.

BlackRock and Microsoft are going to open $ 30 billion in AI investment fund to build data centers and energy projects to meet the growing requirements of the technology sector. On Friday, Meta’s leader Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would spend $ 60-65 billion in capital infrastructure this year, while expanding its AI teams.

“I had constant meetings of customers in all areas. I don’t think there is an executive director I have talked to, who doesn’t know that they should be located AI, “said Openai’s Friar. “AI is not only on the agenda. It is the agenda. It’s no longer just an abstract concept or futuristic vision. It’s here. “

Additional report by Harryet Agnew in Davos