"But Osborne's latest job is the most eye-opening and is an alarming augur of what is to come. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has become the latest organisation to employ Osborne. He will run OpenAI for Countries, a unit tasked with working directly with governments while expanding the company's Stargate datacentre programme beyond the US. At least it was announced with a tweet, rather than a LinkedIn post."
"But it's a serious moment, because it's another sign that the biggest AI firms are starting to behave less like normal companies and more like quasi-governments. They're negotiating national partnerships, pitching a values-led vision of democratic AI and hiring former senior politicians as their diplomatic corps. It's a similar path we have seen from other industries, including oil, pharma and defence, in previous decades"
George Osborne will run OpenAI for Countries, a unit to work directly with governments and expand the Stargate datacentre programme beyond the US. OpenAI is in talks with about 50 countries to embed its models and infrastructure into national systems. The hiring of a former chancellor reflects a trend of major AI firms acting like quasi-governments: negotiating national partnerships, pitching democratic values and recruiting senior politicians as diplomatic intermediaries. The pattern mirrors past industry behaviours in oil, pharma and defence. Those alignments create systemic risks that require early recognition and mitigation to prevent repetition of historical harms.
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