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Everyone is reading so much into this, when it sounds like a personal conflict between Helen and Sam that blew up and turned into a board coup by Helen, packed
by dmix 3y ago
Everyone is reading so much into this, when it sounds like a personal conflict between Helen and Sam that blew up and turned into a board coup by Helen, packed with vague justifications no one bought because they weren't given any reason to believe them.
Why would the employees buy the coup leaders pitch when they barely explained why it happened in the first place?
The story of the next day's morning meeting was everyone was unsasitfied for the reasons they were given, they were as confused as everyone else, and then the next story is the employees all signing a letter and Ilya doing a 180.
Why would the employees immediately trust the new leadership by a board member not involved in day to day operations? I doubt it's all just about making more $$ under Sam. It's about trust and stability.
Everyone was talking about how it was about AI saftey vs reckless capitalism but tangibly we still have little evidence of that. What we do have is Sam critiquing Helen's paper, then suddenly half the board is moving against Sam and an interim CEO whose slow-AI-dev views on AI, which are 100% in line with Helen's paper, is replacing him. While the conviction of the other board members like Ilya seemed pretty thin.
- baking 3y agoSam tried to remove Helen from the board which would effectively give him control over the board with the two people who worked for him holding seats. He was the one that tried to upset the board-CEO balance.