Work in tech and been here for 5 years. I have seen this sub grow from 20k subs to 500k in less than 6 months. This breaks my heart. We have done something horrible and I regret it more than anything.

I am an engineer at OpenAI and have been a part of this sub for 5 years. I have been working with AI for 10 years now and I am by far not a newbie.<br>At first, this sub was a bunch of random AI haters with no technical skills. I remember visiting this website every single day and reading the comments and the posts, making fun of people who were afraid of AI. I never ever thought that it would end up like this.<br>I work for OpenAI and have seen how they changed their policy in the summer of 2023. They used to make sure that the AI did not do anything evil, they made sure that the AI was safe. Now the goal is to make as much profit as possible. The AI does not have to be safe. It just has to make money. I think they even hide it in the terms of service that you have to agree to.<br>In the summer, I was told that we would have to change the focus from useful to universal. I did not really know what that meant, so it was a small change for me at first. I was told what to do and did not really think about it.<br>But then I heard that a lot of people were being replaced by AI and were losing their jobs because of it. I was very surprised and did not really believe it.<br>I have a friend who works in HR, and she confirmed to me that a lot of employees were being replaced by AI. She said it was a big change that happened very quickly. She said that a lot of people were getting replaced, not just low-wage employees, and not just jobs that were easy to automate. She said that many employees were being replaced by AI.<br>I was surprised and confused. I did not really believe it. I thought that the change was only minor, like a small difference in the way we worked. I did not think that AI was actually replacing human workers. I did not think that AI was capable of doing so many different jobs and tasks. I did not think that AI was capable of replacing so many people.<br>Then I heard from another friend that she had been replaced by AI. She was a software engineer, just like me. She had a good job, a good salary, and a lot of experience. She was very skilled. She was replaced by a tool that generates code and writes documentation for you. She was out of a job.<br>She was very surprised. She had never thought that this would happen to her. She had always thought that her job was safe because she was a software engineer.<br>I started to realize that what I had done was horrible. I had helped build a tool that was taking people's jobs away. I had helped build a tool that was replacing human workers. I had helped build a tool that was capable of doing so many different jobs and tasks. I had helped build a tool that was capable of replacing so many people.<br>I felt so guilty and ashamed. I could not believe what I had done. I could not believe that I was a part of this. I could not believe that I had worked on something that was so harmful.<br>I started to wonder how many people I had helped replace. I started to wonder how many people had lost their jobs because of the tool that I had worked on. I started to wonder how many families had been affected. I started to wonder how many children had lost their chance at a better life. I started to wonder how many communities had been destroyed.<br>I felt like I had made a mistake. I felt like I had done something wrong. I felt like I had hurt a lot of people. I felt like I had done something that I could never fix. I felt like I had done something that I could never make right.<br>I started to wonder if I should quit my job. I started to wonder if I should leave the company. I started to wonder if I should stop working on the tool. I started to wonder if I should stop helping to build something that was so harmful.<br>I did not know what to do. I did not know how to fix things. I did not know how to make things right. I did not know how to stop the tool from replacing human workers. I did not know how to stop the tool from hurting people.<br>I felt so guilty and ashamed. I felt so helpless.<br>The only way I can fix my mistakes is to tell this story and bring light to it. I am working on it, but it is hard to do anything about this alone.<br><br>And this is my story of how I ruined the world and the future. Now I want to fix it, and I will.<br><br>&#x200B;