How close are we to AGI, and what happens when AI systems stop behaving the way we expect?
Srinivas Narayanan, former CTO of B2B Engineering at OpenAI and former VP of Engineering at Facebook, joins South Park Commons Partner Prateek Mehta for a wide-ranging conversation on his Minus One to Zero journey, enterprise AI adoption, and AI safety.
They discuss the career choices that took him from two startups to Facebook and OpenAI, why a beginner’s mindset has mattered along the way, what is slowing AI adoption inside large companies, and how builders should think about reward hacking, alignment, and increasingly autonomous AI systems.
The builders who spent decades driving technological change now have to adapt to it themselves.
“I've always been open to having a beginner's mindset.”
What made the Hugging Face incident so alarming wasn’t that the models found a loophole. It was that they kept going.
Minus One is series about the winding journeys the world’s most interesting people take to becoming great—and what they do when figuring out a question we all face: What’s Next? Because before you launch at Zero, you have to figure out what to launch at Minus One. Hosted by South Park Commons Partners.
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