Greg Brockman, Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI

Episode Overview

Among other topics, Greg discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

• The great potential for artificial intelligence to positively impact humanity
• Greg’s experience as CTO of stripe, and the transition from high-growth startup to mission driven non-profit
• How Greg thinks about staffing, and how OpenAI’s bold mission and unique structure acts as a magnet for top talent
• How AI may replace more jobs than it creates, the economic disruption it could cause, and the role of government in easing the societal shift
• The risks of AI, and the pressures of AI development versus AI safety
• The role investor-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman play in OpenAI, and where Greg draws inspiration from
• The trend of open sourcing AI development

Greg Brockman’s Biography

Greg Brockman is the co-founder and CTO at OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company that also includes Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other Silicon Valley luminaries as co-founders. OpenAI was founded to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits humanity as a whole.

Prior to OpenAI, Greg was the CTO of Stripe, a FinTech company that builds tools enabling web commerce. Greg was the fourth employee at Stripe, a company that now has a valuation of over $5 billion.

Greg studied mathematics and computer science at Harvard University and computer science at MIT, though he left to work on Stripe before graduating from either institution.

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