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OpenAI’s board previously consisted of 6 people, incl Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Two of them are more involved in technical matters at OpenAI than Sam. Now t
by nopinsight 3y ago
OpenAI’s board previously consisted of 6 people, incl Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Two of them are more involved in technical matters at OpenAI than Sam. Now there are only four members on the board.
At least one of them must jointly make this decision with the three outside board members. I’d say it’s more likely to be business related. (In addition, the CTO is appointed as the interim CEO.) (Edit: But obviously we currently don’t really know. I think the whistleblower theory below is possible too.)
The announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
“OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
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As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.“
Previous members: https://openai.com/our-structure https://openai.com/our-structure
“Our board
OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.”
- ENGNR 3y agoIn the scenario where a security incident is the cause, the CTO might have been the one blowing the whistle
- rsrsrs86 3y agoThe tone used by OpenAI (their distrust of Sam Altman) tells me that they did not simply decide they need different leadership. The statement by the board seriously damages his career. Why else would they burn bridges and oppose themselves on ethical grounds? Or they are trying to blame and sac Altman.
- tomcam 3y ago> The statement by the board seriously damages his career. You misunderstand how these corporate situations work. He will fall upward to a better job someplace else if he chooses. Adam Neumann, who started then destroyed WeWork, already raised $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for another real estate company called Flow.
- Sebb767 3y ago> Adam Neumann, who started then destroyed WeWork, already raised $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for another real estate company called Flow. Well, he did get a few billion dollars of lesson on how to not run such a company, making him quite uniquely qualified for this position.
- PopePompus 3y agoI assume he has trademarked the word "Flow" and is licensing it to the company for a few million dollars.
- miohtama 3y agoAdam also managed to get almost half a billy worth of money out from Softbank as a corporate loan for himself https://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbank-takes-14b-hit-wework-230042522.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHrwp2w4ATK6j4_iREuJrh0jNB60I35cbLn-KlvxIxfGd9vHSEPT4_l0lmuyEMRkcHZw-GgBAhc652GB5lgsPECHLpOfkj4X_o9xFC9h5cPCOukZrLwCjTEouwfGe7tzZFDRYjI77w8thkFOm1OPCp4d8ogJFg9hPxKRYLc1OKgS https://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbank-takes-14b-hit-wework... Adam is good making people rich, but those people are not his investors.
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- boh 3y agoWhatever it is, Open AI need to disclose the reason soon, otherwise speculation will undermine the whole AI market. However big his transgressions may be, it's actual impact is finite, while the speculation can be infinite.
- gumballindie 3y agoThe whole ai market is rife with ip theft and privacy violations. The cat’s out of the bag.
- pk-protect-ai 3y agoNobody will give a sht in a month.
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- zombiwoof 3y agoLove your quote there: impact finite when speculation isn’t infinite
- rsrsrs86 3y agoHi fellow Zappa fan.
- onlyfortoday2 3y ago[dead]
- faeriechangling 3y agoThe average user of ChatGPT has no idea who Sam Altman is.
- marshray 3y agoMy view is that medium- and long- terms are determined by fundamentals of what the technology actually delivers. OpenAI and ChatGPT are great and gets a lot of mind-share. But they are far from the only game in town and, at this still very-early stage of the tech cycle, the outwardly-visible leader can easily change in months.
- lippihom 3y agoNever raise money from a competitor...
- h3h 3y agoFrom another post on their structure[1] > Only a minority of board members are allowed to hold financial stakes in the partnership at one time. Furthermore, only board members without such stakes can vote on decisions where the interests of limited partners and OpenAI Nonprofit’s mission may conflict—including any decisions about making payouts to investors and employees. So given the latest statement from the board emphasizing their mission, it could be that Brockman and Sutskever were not able to participate in the board decision to fire Altman, making it a 3-to-2 or 4-to-1 vote against Altman. [1]: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
- stingrae 3y agoIs it possible that the Open AI employees had to recuse themselves from the vote?
- d0odk 3y agoI did a similar analysis to you about how the board must have voted and initially concluded that Ilya likely voted against Sam. However, without seeing the actual governing documents for OpenAI, we can't rule out the possibility that personnel decisions are made solely by the independent directors.