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Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Here is Helen Toner's resumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/details/edu... I am genuinely flabbergasted as to how she ended up on the board. How does this happen? I can't even find anything about fellow board member Tasha McCauley...

Just linking to the education tab of her profile is misleading.

Many people in AI safety are young. She has more professional experience than many leaders in the field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could have been only Sam that was under Vote and Greg being forced to step down after he voted in his favour maybe in a second vote later.

Why would Greg have said "after learning today's news" if he took part in the vote? If he decided to quit immediately after the vote then why would the board issue a statement saying he was going to stay on? I don't think he took part, the others probably convened a meeting and cast a unanimous vote, issued the statement and then contacted Greg and Sam. The whole thing seems rushed so that's probably how it would hav…

After looking into it they would have had to give notice in case they wanted to attend but from the sounds of it they may not have bothered to go which would make sense if they knew they were screwed.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has zero ownership of the entity the board controls (the OpenAI nonprofit), and a for-profit firm having seats on a nonprofit board especially if it was because they invested in a for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit would raise serious issues of the “nonprofit” being run for purposes incompatible with its status.

Sure; but its still weird that Microsoft agreed to the deal with the board in the state that it was; not just no board seat, but three absolute outsiders, two of them extremely unqualified. We may look back on their decision to buy 49% of OpenAI as a big misstep.

Microsoft got access to their IP and capitalized on it.

Likely it's already brought them more than $10B they paid.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Edit: I called it https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725682088639119857 nothing to do with dishonesty. That’s just the official reason. ———- I haven’t heard anyone commenting about this, but the two main figures here-consider: This MUST come down to a disagreement between Altman and Sutskever. Also interesting that Sutskever tweeted a month and a half ago https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907 Th…

That may be the case, but I have a feeling that it will end up being presented as a alignment and ethics versus all in on AGI consequences be damned. I'm sure OpenAI has gotten a lot of external pressure to focus more on alignment and ethics and this coup is signalling that OpenAI will yield to that pressure.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

#347

Here is Helen Toner's resumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/details/edu... I am genuinely flabbergasted as to how she ended up on the board. How does this happen? I can't even find anything about fellow board member Tasha McCauley...

Getting "page not found". I don't think I have an account....

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #321

Neither @sama nor @gdb are known to communicate in all lowercase. That fact that both did today must mean something.

It means there was no shifty business.

Facepalm

It took a minute (and reading other comments) before that clicked :)

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