OpenAI announces leadership transition
openai.com
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process [by the board]

“god, he’s really cost us… how much can we get back?”

which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board

not only with the board, kids

hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities

you and me both, brother

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      My prediction, he was fired because he doesn’t take the risk of AGI seriously enough. The next CEO is going to end up here a lot. Because that would be the silliest option, them ignoring the stories from his sister, any embezzlement or harassment but full on going ‘he picked stopping the torture instead of stopping the dust specks’

          • datarama@awful.systemsEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            My own speculations started with the kinds of perfectly reasonable, cynical things a perfectly reasonable, cynical board might concern themselves with before throwing the CEO to the wolves (they’re lighting money on fire too much faster than money is coming in; one of the lawsuits isn’t looking good, there’s been a horrific security incident, etc.), and ended with “but of course, this is 2023 big tech, it might also be robot cult schismatics.”

            -sigh- But here we are, I guess.

            Get well soon!

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Considering both sides don’t care about consent (assuming the Altman allegations are real, and even if they aren’t see the GPT training data (different type of consent but still)) it will not be good.