Now as Altman fought to stay alive, he was going to knock down some of those guardrails. The cautious approach he’d started with was going to morph into something more reckless, and doing so would transform the AI field that he and DeepMind had been working in from a slow and largely academic pursuit into something more like the Wild West. Altman would use his ability to spin a compelling narrative to justify the departure he was about to take from OpenAI’s founding principles. He was a tech founder, and tech founders had to pivot sometimes. That was how it worked in Silicon Valley. He would
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