Artificial, In General In recent weeks, OpenAI quietly changed its “core values” list to include a focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI) that wasn’t explicitly listed there before. As Semafor reports, the firm as recently as September 21 listed its values on a job openings page as “Audacious,” “Thoughtful,” “Unpretentious,” “Impact-driven,” “Collaborative” and “Growth-oriented,” per a snapshot of the page on the Internet Archive. When one goes to the page now, though, they’ll see an entirely different list that includes “AGI focus” as its very first value. Its other new core values: “Intense and scrappy,” “Scale,” “Make something people love,” and “Team spirit.” Sure, it’s all corporate blather. But you can’t help but wonder: if you can replace all your core values at the drop of a hat, were they really core values to begin with? Whiplash! And let’s zoom in on that number one core value, “AGI Focus,” because it’s a perfect example of how the company’s favorite terms can feel like works in progress. In February, OpenAI’s inscrutable CEO Sam Altman wrote in a company blog post that AGI can broadly be defined as “systems that are generally smarter than humans,” but in a wide-ranging New York Magazine interview published last month, he’d downgraded the definition to AI that could serve as the “equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.” So which is it, then? Does OpenAI and its CEO think that AGI, its purported new core value, will be comprised of superhuman artificial intelligence, or is…The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its "Core Values" With Completely Different Ones