--- title: "AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly”" description: "With OpenAI's GPT-4, things \"can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them,\" Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat." date: "2023-03-16" modified: "2023-03-16" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-ceo-gpt-4-super-dangerous" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai" - "gpt-4" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly” ![With OpenAI's GPT-4, things "can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Bad Precedent OpenAI [released its hotly-anticipated GPT-4]() on Tuesday, providing a 98-page "[technical report]()" on the latest iteration of its large language model (LLM). But despite the lengthy documentation and the company's [not-for-profit]() roots, OpenAI has revealed extremely little information about how its latest AI actually works — which has experts worried, [*Venture Beat* reports](). OpenAI, however, claims it had good reason to play its cards close to the chest. "Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4," reads the paper, "this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar." In other words: this is OpenAI's Krabby Patty formula, and they won't be offering up the recipe anytime soon. ## Secret Sauce According to Lightning AI CEO William Falcon, an AI researcher who previously worked under Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, OpenAI's refusal to cough up their secret GPT-4 recipe is a precarious move. OpenAI is "basically saying, it's cool, just do your thing, we don't care," Falcon told *Venture Beat*, arguing that OpenAI has set a "bad precedent" for competing AI startups. "So you are going to have all these companies who are not going to be incentivized anymore to make things open-source, to tell people what they're doing." "These models can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," he added. "And it's just really hard to audit. It's kind of like a bank that doesn't belong to FINRA, like how are you supposed to regulate it?" ## Show Your Work Falcon makes an excellent point. It's easy for anyone to *say* that they're doing all of the right things to get to a certain outcome. But if you don't actually show your work, outside regulation is pretty much impossible. There's also the reality that the existence of the paper is pretty misleading altogether. Though the OpenAI paper is *called* a technical report, it doesn't exactly contain much technical information. And that, says Falcon, does everyone a disservice. "You're masquerading as research," the CEO told *Venture Beat.* "That's the problem." In any case, though, the technical report made one thing clear: that despite its name, OpenAI's doors are firmly shut — and that's unlikely to change. **READ MORE:** [*Lightning AI CEO slams OpenAI's GPT-4 paper as 'masquerading as research'*]() \[*Venture Beat*\] **More on GPT-4:** [*OpenAI's GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone's Ever Taken*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()