alt Hacker News> answer seems to be "we don't, he's on the board of a competiting AI company"
That seems like a good reason to listen to him? He is prominently placed in the field. Has a lot to lose by knowingly making false statements in public about a competitor. And has an incentive (and the resources with which) to dig deeply into them in a way e.g. a trash-talking YouTuber does not.
He has his set of biases. But Board member at a multi-trillion dollar established software and AI kingmaker seems like a weird way to dismiss an opinion.
> He is prominently placed in the field.
No he isn't. He's the LinkedIn guy. That's his only success. Good for him but the LinkedIn founder doesn't know anything baout AI.
> Has a lot to lose by knowingly making false statements in public about a competitor.
The article ignores the conflict of interest - Hoffman is introduced as:
> Reid Hoffman has watched the AI industry from virtually every vantage point—as a founder, a lead investor and as a decade-long Microsoft board member.
they don't say:
"Reid invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic" which seems to indicate that Fortune think they can get away with lying through omission.