Bankman-Fried could rationalize his duplicity because he was working toward a bigger goal of maximizing human happiness. Musk could wave off his own inhumane actions, from baselessly calling people pedophiles on Twitter to alleged widespread racism at his Tesla factories, because he was chasing bigger prizes, like turning Twitter into a free speech utopia and making humans an interplanetary species. And the founders of OpenAI and DeepMind could rationalize their growing support for Big Tech firms in much the same way. So long as they eventually attained AGI, they would be fulfilling a greater
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