What did Jeremy O. Harris say about OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Details explored as actor calls out CEO at Vanity Fair Oscars Party

Jeremy O. Harris called out OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party. The Oscars took place on Sunday night, which was attended by a list of famous celebrities. Among them were also Jeremy O. Harris and Sam Altman.

During the party, Harris reportedly walked to Altman and questioned him about a new deal of his company with the military. According to Page Six, Harris reportedly called Altman:

“[Joseph] Goebbels of the Trump administration”

However, it’s not revealed what Altman responded to Jeremy O. Harris after the confrontation.

Earlier this month, OpenAI updated its deal with the Department of War, in which it stated that it will be providing tools, but with strict safety rules. They will reportedly make sure that the technology is not used for spying on people in the country, controlling autonomous weapons, or making decisions without human oversight.


Jeremy O. Harris talks about confronting Sam Altman

Here is re-post of an internal post:We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else:“• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals.• For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information.”It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go.I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it.2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract.3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods.5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn’t have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future.In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to.We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.

According to Page Six, Jeremy O. Harris talked about his confrontation with Altman in an email to the outlet in which he wrote:

“It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

Friedrich Flick was a German businessman who supported the Nazi regime and was later punished for his role. He later rebuilt his wealth to become one of the richest people in Germany.

As of now, Sam Altman or OpenAI has not released any statement on the same. Sam Altman is pretty active on social media and even posted a tweet on X a day earlier, admiring the work of software developers.

Along with the update posted earlier this month, Altman also posted a tweet clarifying to people how the AI will be used in the Department of War. He added:

“One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn’t have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future.”

In another reply, he added:

“I think we are heading towards a world where the relationship between governments and AI efforts is critical. This will be difficult but it has to happen; I do not see any good future where we don’t get there. There should not be games and fights in the press like this; drastic government action should be avoided.”


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