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Musk recalls meeting Sam Altman.
Musk says Altman, then at Y Combinator, was “not well known at that time” — but he agreed with Musk on AI safety, which was very important. He reiterates that, by contrast, Larry Page called Musk a “species-ist” for being concerned about humans being wiped out by AI. “OpenAI exists because Larry Page called me a species-ist,” he says.
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