
OpenAI: Metaphysics in the C-Suite
The chaos surrounding Sam Altman and OpenAI reveals just how much of tech can be driven by fantasy.
Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German, director of Digital Humanities, and founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at NYU. He is the author of the book Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx.
The chaos surrounding Sam Altman and OpenAI reveals just how much of tech can be driven by fantasy.
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