The Omnicrisis could have been a moment for OpenAI to engage in self-reflection. It was a prompt for the company to understand why exactly it had simultaneously lost the trust of employees, investors, and regulators as well as that of the broader public. Only then, maybe, just maybe, it would have begun to realize that both The Blip and the Omnicrisis were one and the same: the convulsions that arise from the deep systemic instability that occurs when an empire concentrates so much power, through so much dispossession, leaving the majority grappling with a loss of agency and material wealth
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