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"Murati and Sutskever led an all-hands meeting at 2 p.m. Employees peppered them with dozens of questions, many of which were some version of: what did Sam do?
by samspenc 3y ago
"Murati and Sutskever led an all-hands meeting at 2 p.m. Employees peppered them with dozens of questions, many of which were some version of: what did Sam do? One employee asked if they would ever find out, to which Sutskever replied, “No.”
After that meeting, the executive team regrouped in a conference room. A member of the executive team told Sutskever that the lack of detail was unacceptable and demanded the rest of the board join a video call to explain, according to people familiar with the matter.
On the call, the leadership team pressed the board over the course of about 40 minutes for specific examples of Altman’s lack of candor, the people said. The board refused, citing legal reasons, the people said.
Some executives said they were getting questions from regulators and law-enforcement entities such as the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan over the charge of Altman’s alleged lack of candor, the people said. The truth was going to come out one way or another, they told the board."
"The board agreed to discuss the matter with their counsel. After a few hours, they returned, still unwilling to provide specifics. They said that Altman wasn’t candid, and often got his way. The board said that Altman had been so deft they couldn’t even give a specific example, according to the people familiar with the executives.
The executives requested written examples of the board’s allegations."
- dekhn 3y agoI'm curious about "Some executives said they were getting questions from regulators and law-enforcement entities such as the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan over the charge of Altman’s alleged lack of candor, the people said." Does that mean, the execs were getting requests in the past few days from the US AG about Altman's lack of candor, based on what the board posted, but the execs didn't know about? That sequence of events just sounds a bit convoluted so I want to understand: the US AG is probing OpenAI's execs about their CEO's "lack of candor".
- samspenc 3y agoMy understanding is that this was the sequence: - Board posts publicly about Altman's lack of candor - US regulatory agencies start asking about what this lack of candor was - Board refuses to reply