BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Wow. I listened to his appearance on JRE a few weeks ago and thought he was a pretty sharp guy.
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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
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Wow. I listened to his appearance on JRE a few weeks ago and thought he was a pretty sharp guy.
OpenAI announces leadership transition
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.
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.
The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities, today announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately.
A member of OpenAI’s leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI’s evolution into a global AI leader. She brings a unique skill set, understanding of the company’s values, operations, and business, and already leads the company’s research, product, and safety functions. Given her long tenure and close engagement with all aspects of the company, including her experience in AI governance and policy, the board believes she is uniquely qualified for the role and anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.
Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
In a statement, the board of directors said: “OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission. We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI. At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward. As the leader of the company’s research, product, and safety functions, Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period.”
OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.
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This is a shock. Right when OpenAI blows up and becomes one of the most important companies in the world, the person who got the company to that point is ousted by the board. There's no doubt something we don't know about that will come to light soon.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Who knows what the issue is. Probably lied about his past career or something. Or did some shady with competing AI companies thats conflict of interest.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They'll use AI to write the reason.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Very interesting what was happening behind the scene.
FullMetalx117
Member
Hmm…on one hand boards at most companies are mostly valueless, some figureheads for boomers pretending to do something collecting shares/$$$ in the process. On the other hand, don’t know what these allegations are. If something finance related then yes obviously red flag. If it was something creative/tech related, then once again these board members are pretending they’re actually contributing to company value and may have just let value walk away and become a potential competitor.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Wow, huge news. Elon’s revenge?
The new CEO:
The new CEO:
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I’m gonna guess it’s either he was banging a secretary or it’s some disagreement about how to make money with the tech
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Last thing I expected to read when I woke up this morning.
newtypepilot
Member
plot twist: the board is the AI and became self aware.
GHG
Member
Google Sam Altman. Is this his Tweet??? I don’t see it on his profile.
If true there is something very dystopian about all of this.
GHG
Member
Was most likely his most recent reply last time Google did a crawl of his Twitter page.
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ChuckeRearmed
Member
Drop more and then can buy more.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Wildebeest
Member
From what they said, it seems like some of the engineers there went past him to tell board that he was lying to them about something. Maybe safety.
PSYGN
Member
Could a company limit the % of ownership in a company? I wouldn't let any one company hold 49% if I had my say.
Edit: Assuming Sam was the one getting in the way of Microsoft. But I would hope it's what
Wildebeest
says, that Sam went against them and safety and they ousted him out without any entity pulling the strings.
Edit: Assuming Sam was the one getting in the way of Microsoft. But I would hope it's what
Wildebeest
says, that Sam went against them and safety and they ousted him out without any entity pulling the strings.
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terintamel
Member
Altman be praised!
ChorizoPicozo
Gold Member
Is the bubble bursting already?
Biff
Member
Hard to overstate how big of a firing this is. The damage control tweet from Satya Nadella just makes it worse lol.
Wild unfounded speculation on my part (not even worth the usual "two cents"):
1) Sam lied about data security. Massive organizations are onboarding Microsoft Copilot with the promise that all their internal data is ringfenced and can't be used by OpenAI for any reason. Imagine if Microsoft Engineers have been uploading extremely confidential source code for the past year, and they only just realized OpenAI has a copy of it on some dude's laptop.
2) Sam saw a Microsoft takeover coming and was fighting it. Maybe went as far as building alliances with top execs who would resign in protest of a full acquisition?
I'm sure we'll know more by the end of the weekend. This is the hottest story in tech and every Silicon Valley reporter is greasing every contact they have right now for the juicy details.
Wild unfounded speculation on my part (not even worth the usual "two cents"):
1) Sam lied about data security. Massive organizations are onboarding Microsoft Copilot with the promise that all their internal data is ringfenced and can't be used by OpenAI for any reason. Imagine if Microsoft Engineers have been uploading extremely confidential source code for the past year, and they only just realized OpenAI has a copy of it on some dude's laptop.
2) Sam saw a Microsoft takeover coming and was fighting it. Maybe went as far as building alliances with top execs who would resign in protest of a full acquisition?
I'm sure we'll know more by the end of the weekend. This is the hottest story in tech and every Silicon Valley reporter is greasing every contact they have right now for the juicy details.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Ai created the CEO of your dreams.Wow, huge news. Elon’s revenge?
The new CEO:
Hugare
Member
Puscifer
Member
ChatGPT 4 lied about insider trade and it's actions. Far be it from me to say that's a sign of things to come but what frightens me is that it leads the wrong person to do something dangerous based off information and probability and we just have to deal with the after effects.
An AI bot performed insider trading and deceived its users after deciding helping a company was worth the risk
"Alpha," a fictional investment tool, lied to its user about committing insider trading in a prime example of AI deception.
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bitbydeath
Member
WTF?
Chittagong
Gold Member
Wow. Best guesses
1 - Microsoft is speed running their Nokia destruction and manages to Lumia the company in just a year
2 - General AI was achieved but they wanted to keep it out of the hands of Microsoft. Hence Nadella’s reminder that they can access *everything*. This lines up with Sam keeping things from the board.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
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ThisIsMyDog
Member
You will be part of Microsoft now, please do not resist.
ChorizoPicozo
Gold Member
purple hair and lactose intolerant and all
Unknown Soldier
Member
I don't get how every single thing Microsoft acquires immediately goes to shit for reasons which are completely out of MS's control. It must be some kind of amazing talent to be able to do this so consistently.