It makes no sense because nobody but Sam and the board knows what actually happened. My guess is that they arrived to an inflection point. The company was on t

It makes no sense because nobody but Sam and the board knows what actually happened. My guess is that they arrived to an inflection point. The company was on the cusp of taking an investment which would have valued it at 80 billion. One of the board members mentioned that self destruction would have been in line with their mission of safety for humanity. It seems like at some point you have to ditch the "we're doing this for the benefit of humanity" act and act like a profit hungry machine with a startup CEO going balls out. In this case, "balls out" won. The board was way too late. The AGI escaped with the creation of the for-profit company.