OpenAI \u2018in early talks to give 5% stake to US government\u2019
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OpenAI \u2018in early talks to give 5% stake to US government\u2019
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OpenAI \u2018in early talks to give 5% stake to US government\u2019
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This is about 5,000 hours of calls and it's a very simple script, the OpenAI interface can easily handle transcripts until I reach her, so I would like to automate it until I can connect with her mom.
But since we will lose half our family's paycheck after she is fired, I would like to see if I can get a job that can pay for both of us, so I would like to simultaneously transition to working for an AI company that does accessibility robocalls, since I have a personal motivation to work in this area, and I think it will make my task easier as well, and I think it will let me complete the task more easily.
- Are there any companies working on robocalls for accessibility that could be a good match for a hands-on engineering applicant with AI, coding, and project management experience?
Thanks for any tips of companies that might be hiring.
[1] Her boss: "One gs 5 employees is extremely problematic and I cannot speak, email or even walk by her office without her calling the union, making an EEO complaint, IG complaint, Office of Special Counsel complaint. If I give her any direction, work assignment or God forbid feedback she claims retaliation. As of now- she has not been successful in any of these complaints. " (the boss may have changed one or two small details to keep it anonymous.)"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Are any companies working on robocalls for accessibility?"}},"_tags":["story","author_logicallee","story_38312557","ask_hn"],"author":"logicallee","children":[38312896,38313821],"created_at":"2023-11-17T23:58:27Z","created_at_i":1700265507,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"38312557","points":1,"story_id":38312557,"story_text":"My fianc\u00e9e is about to be fired from her federal job over her complaints for accessiblity [1], it looks like if her federal email address is disconnected (starts bouncing) the only way to reach her will be for me to call every household in her state until I reach her mom. (She'll obviously be the only special needs employee who was just fired from federal government and whose fianc\u00e9 can't reach her, not a difficult needle to find in a haystack.)
This is about 5,000 hours of calls and it's a very simple script, the OpenAI interface can easily handle transcripts until I reach her, so I would like to automate it until I can connect with her mom.
But since we will lose half our family's paycheck after she is fired, I would like to see if I can get a job that can pay for both of us, so I would like to simultaneously transition to working for an AI company that does accessibility robocalls, since I have a personal motivation to work in this area, and I think it will make my task easier as well, and I think it will let me complete the task more easily.
- Are there any companies working on robocalls for accessibility that could be a good match for a hands-on engineering applicant with AI, coding, and project management experience?
Thanks for any tips of companies that might be hiring.
[1] Her boss: "One gs 5 employees is extremely problematic and I cannot speak, email or even walk by her office without her calling the union, making an EEO complaint, IG complaint, Office of Special Counsel complaint. If I give her any direction, work assignment or God forbid feedback she claims retaliation. As of now- she has not been successful in any of these complaints. " (the boss may have changed one or two small details to keep it anonymous.)","title":"Ask HN: Are any companies working on robocalls for accessibility?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:36:09Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"achow"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["openai","5","stake","us","government"],"value":"> Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that each of America\u2019s leading AI developers allot 5 per cent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state\u2019s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents.
Sounds like it is for benefit of public rather than govt' office, and this would continue to benefit public even after current US administration is out of picture."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["openai","5"],"value":"OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b"}},"_tags":["comment","author_achow","story_48756702"],"author":"achow","comment_text":"> Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that each of America\u2019s leading AI developers allot 5 per cent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state\u2019s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents.
Sounds like it is for benefit of public rather than govt' office, and this would continue to benefit public even after current US administration is out of picture.","created_at":"2026-07-02T17:34:36Z","created_at_i":1783013676,"objectID":"48764767","parent_id":48758926,"story_id":48756702,"story_title":"OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake","story_url":"https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b","updated_at":"2026-07-02T17:36:51Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"talldayo"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["openai","5","stake","us","government"],"value":"> And most of that engineering has text-parts interfacing with electro-mechanic parts. Fuck around with one and find out.
To my knowledge that is certainly not true with airplanes, pre fly-by-wire or post-digital. Early airplanes relied entirely on mechanical trim and avionics to prevent unstable flight, with absolutely no "text-parts" beyond written instructions and radio callsigns. Later on maybe, but the FAA very strictly regulates the text that I think you might as well just call it code. I suspect that beyond street labels, self-driving cars aren't interfacing with "text-parts" all that much either.
> So once some rich folks in the Middle East, China or Texas buy enough hardware to run their own LLMs without limitations
"Once"? This is today. Actually it was 10 years ago; text transformers have been "unlimited" since we had access to hardware that enabled it. More than 5 years ago BERT was documented and released under Open Source, and GPT-2 followed not far after. Now we have Llama, Phi, open derivatives LORAs and finetunes of all of them, and we're still waiting for the damages to appear? I just don't buy it. Any potential threats would have shown themselves by now, and very clearly we're starting to find that having GPT-4 in your pocket is not remotely equivalent to hiring Einstein for your private lab. As a matter of fact Einstein would probably kick out the LLM for wasting his precious time.
> We have governments and corporations that build and run instructions through LLMs to support sides of conflicts with questionable motives
That's not even the scary part. For over 40 years the United States has operationalized autonomous kill-chains for air-to-air and air-to-ground mission profiles. A computer can track, interrogate, identify and kill an unidentified aircraft using the Patriot Missile system with zero human intervention. 20 SAM TELs can be identified in a crowd of vehicles and automatically prosecuted with a single CBU-97 Sensor Fused munition. Putting an LLM in a bomb would be a mercy to the people you drop it on; the US (and all serious military forces) are only interested in AI that works. LLMs aren't yet operationalized because, well, they don't work. Unless you're a homicidal maniac-state a-la Israel with their Lavander system.
> Censoring training data while growing the codes' range of possible and human readable output only exacerbates the problem.
> Gain of Function studies should come to mind.
They don't. I'm not sure what your proximity is to the computer science world, but we don't have to worry about AI poisoning the hashed/encrypted copies of backed-up text. Certainly OpenAI and Meta doesn't; if you piss and moan about their "censored" training data (lol) they'll compose you a sad symphony for violin on the world's smallest LLM."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["us"],"value":"A.I. May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/opinion/ai-advances-risks.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_talldayo","story_41096929"],"author":"talldayo","children":[41106641],"comment_text":"> And most of that engineering has text-parts interfacing with electro-mechanic parts. Fuck around with one and find out.
To my knowledge that is certainly not true with airplanes, pre fly-by-wire or post-digital. Early airplanes relied entirely on mechanical trim and avionics to prevent unstable flight, with absolutely no "text-parts" beyond written instructions and radio callsigns. Later on maybe, but the FAA very strictly regulates the text that I think you might as well just call it code. I suspect that beyond street labels, self-driving cars aren't interfacing with "text-parts" all that much either.
> So once some rich folks in the Middle East, China or Texas buy enough hardware to run their own LLMs without limitations
"Once"? This is today. Actually it was 10 years ago; text transformers have been "unlimited" since we had access to hardware that enabled it. More than 5 years ago BERT was documented and released under Open Source, and GPT-2 followed not far after. Now we have Llama, Phi, open derivatives LORAs and finetunes of all of them, and we're still waiting for the damages to appear? I just don't buy it. Any potential threats would have shown themselves by now, and very clearly we're starting to find that having GPT-4 in your pocket is not remotely equivalent to hiring Einstein for your private lab. As a matter of fact Einstein would probably kick out the LLM for wasting his precious time.
> We have governments and corporations that build and run instructions through LLMs to support sides of conflicts with questionable motives
That's not even the scary part. For over 40 years the United States has operationalized autonomous kill-chains for air-to-air and air-to-ground mission profiles. A computer can track, interrogate, identify and kill an unidentified aircraft using the Patriot Missile system with zero human intervention. 20 SAM TELs can be identified in a crowd of vehicles and automatically prosecuted with a single CBU-97 Sensor Fused munition. Putting an LLM in a bomb would be a mercy to the people you drop it on; the US (and all serious military forces) are only interested in AI that works. LLMs aren't yet operationalized because, well, they don't work. Unless you're a homicidal maniac-state a-la Israel with their Lavander system.
> Censoring training data while growing the codes' range of possible and human readable output only exacerbates the problem.
> Gain of Function studies should come to mind.
They don't. I'm not sure what your proximity is to the computer science world, but we don't have to worry about AI poisoning the hashed/encrypted copies of backed-up text. Certainly OpenAI and Meta doesn't; if you piss and moan about their "censored" training data (lol) they'll compose you a sad symphony for violin on the world's smallest LLM.","created_at":"2024-07-29T18:20:16Z","created_at_i":1722277216,"objectID":"41102507","parent_id":41098468,"story_id":41096929,"story_title":"A.I. May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us","story_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/opinion/ai-advances-risks.html","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:29:21Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":8,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=OpenAI+5%25+stake+US+government&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":43,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":366,"roundTrip":25},"afterFetch":{"format":{"total":1}},"fetch":{"query":13,"scanning":28,"total":42},"total":43},"query":"OpenAI 5% stake US government","serverTimeMS":411}