Sam Altman, OpenAI and the quest for ethical AGI with Avi Bar-Zeev, Founder and President Reality Prime, XR Guild

In the few days since OpenAI's board of directors removed its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, the future of the company and what it means for the race to AGI Artificial General Intelligence is anyone’s guess. 

Joining me to put this fast moving saga into perspective is Avi Bar-Zeev founder and president of Reality Prime an independent consulting service providing world-class expertise in AR & VR design and engineering, since 1997.

Avi Bar-Zeev has been at the forefront of Spatial Computing for over 30 years. He co-invented the Hololens AR headset in 2010, and led the Experience Prototyping team for Apple's Vision Pro and more from 2016 to 2019. 

Most recently, he is a founder and President of The XR Guild, a new non-profit membership organization that seeks to support and educate professionals in XR on ethics and most positive outcomes for humanity.

However this techno drama plays out, we are approaching a threshold of computing power that was once the domain of science-fiction and fantasy. The builders are already living there. 

How do you think AI will impact human rights, the way we live, work or how we define what makes us unique? Let us know on the Zero to Start LinkedIn page. 

CONNECT WITH AVI

• XR Guild
• LinkedIn 
• Mission Responsible - Designing a Future We Choose to Accept - Dec 10th

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• sicilianatrevino.com 
• LinkedIn 

OPENAI MAYHEM 

• Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI - Tech Crunch
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle - On with Kara Swisher
• Emergency Podcast: Altman Fired at OpenAI - Big Technology Podcast
• OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns - Wired
• OpenAI's Sutskever says he regrets board's firing of Altman - Axios
• OpenAi's Non-profit Board at the heart of Sam Altman's Ouster - Sharon Goldman
• OpenAI Dev Day Sam Altman Opening Keynote - YouTube
• OpenAI charter
• OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever - No Priors Podcast
• Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning - Lex Fridman Podcast

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