Ellison should be nowhere near this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...

The man has the moral system of a private prison and the money to build one.

Just Ellison alone brings unwelcome feeling of having Oracle craziness forced down our collective throats, but I share your concern about the unholy alliance generated in front of us.

What do you prefer ? Letting DeepSeek and China lead the AI war ? DeepSeek R1 is a big wake up call https://open.substack.com/pub/transitions/p/deepseek-is-comi...

I would love for Oracle to use AI to put their entire legal department out of work, though.

I don't like how OpenAI turned majorly from what it was founded upon and their bias training ... but when considering the actual opponent here is China, it's not the worst.

I think OpenAI was originally founded against that kind of force. Autocratic governments becoming masters of AI.

By the time this project is done it will have been dead for 2 years.

Too many greedy mouths. Too many corporations. Too little oversight. Too broad an objective. Technology is moving too quickly for them to even guess at what to aim for.

Need a bit of Zuck too

That sentiment calls for reflection - whoever ends up on top of the heap after the AI craze settles down is going to be someone that everyone objects to. Elon Musk was himself an internet darling up until he became wealthy and entrenched.

That said, this does look like dreadful policy at the first headline. There is a lot of money going in to AI, adding more money from the US taxpayer is gratuitous. Although in the spirit of mixing praise and condemnation, if this is the worst policy out of Trump Admin II then it'll be the best US administration seen in my lifetime. Generally the low points are much lower.

We should NEVER have a lawnmower at the helm of humanity.

It could be worse, Elon Musk could be involved with it.