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At least the 3 independent members will be gone. Either will try to burry the hatchet with Ilya or he leaves as well.
by Handy-Man 3y ago
At least the 3 independent members will be gone. Either will try to burry the hatchet with Ilya or he leaves as well.
- himaraya 3y agoHard to see Ilya staying if Sam returns, honestly.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI'm sure he'll be fine, and well compensated and able to do what he wants elsewhere.
- adastra22 3y agoWhat he wants is to control global AI development. He just lost that battle.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoWhat he wanted was to do AI development at a larger scale than what universities and corporate R&D teams were doing. Or so he says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325407 Having shown this was possible, he could easily go do it elsewhere.
- icelancer 3y agoIlya is the only one worth keeping around if Sam returns mercifully.
- DebtDeflation 3y agoGood. Two of them aren't even qualified to be on the board of a kid's lemonade stand.
- nemo44x 3y ago[flagged]
- rlt 3y agoWithout commenting on their competency as board members... Describing Tasha McCauley as "an actor's wife" feels a bit sexist. She's apparently a scientist and founder of a (failed?) startup. Is there any evidence Helen Toner is a "Chinese spy"? (having lived in Beijing isn't evidence)
- Terretta 3y agoAssuming you don't mean the insiders or the Quora CEO, which aspects of these remaining backgrounds do you find unusual for a Silicon Valley board member? Tasha McCauley is an adjunct senior management scientist at RAND Corporation, a job she started earlier in 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously cofounded Fellow Robots, a startup she launched with a colleague from Singularity University, where she’d served as a director of an innovation lab, and then cofounded GeoSim Systems, a geospatial technology startup where she served as CEO until last year. With her husband Joseph Gorden-Levitt, she was a signer of the Asilomar AI Principles, a set of 23 AI governance principles published in 2017. (Altman, OpenAI cofounder Iyla Sutskever and former board director Elon Musk also signed.) McCauley currently sits on the advisory board of British-founded international Center for the Governance of AI alongside fellow OpenAI director Helen Toner. And she’s tied to the Effective Altruism movement through the Centre for Effective Altruism; McCauley sits on the U.K. board of the Effective Ventures Foundation, its parent organization. Helen Toner, director of strategy and foundational research grants at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, joined OpenAI’s board of directors in September 2021. Her role: to think about safety in a world where OpenAI’s creation had global influence. “I greatly value Helen’s deep thinking around the long-term risks and effects of AI,” Brockman said in a statement at the time. More recently, Toner has been making headlines as an expert on China’s AI landscape and the potential role of AI regulation in a geopolitical face-off with the Asian giant. Toner had lived in Beijing in between roles at Open Philanthropy and her current job at CSET, researching its AI ecosystem, per her corporate biography. In June, she co-authored an essay for Foreign Affairs on “The Illusion of China’s AI Prowess” that argued — in opposition to Altman’s cited U.S. Senate testimony — that regulation wouldn’t slow down the U.S. in a race between the two nations. . . . EDIT TO ADD: The question wasn't whether this is scintillating substance. The question was, in what way is this unusual in Silicon Valley. The answer is that it's not.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoAdam has competing interests. It's hard to see why he is even allowed in non profit board. And for other two members, their profile seem pretty weak for being in a board of one of most important companies in the world.