{"id":12371,"date":"2023-11-23T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/openais-directors-have-been-anything-but-open-what-the-hell-happened\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T17:37:15","slug":"openais-directors-have-been-anything-but-open-what-the-hell-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/openais-directors-have-been-anything-but-open-what-the-hell-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s directors have been anything but open. What the hell happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the top company in the world\u2019s most explosive industry, the boss was fired and rehired \u2013 and no one has said why<\/p>\n

\u2022 OpenAI was \u2018working on model so powerful it alarmed staff\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The OpenAI farce has moved at such speed in the past week that it is easy to forget that nobody has yet said in clear terms why Sam Altman \u2013 the returning<\/a> chief executive and all-round genius, according to his vocal fanclub \u2013 was fired in the first place<\/a>. Since we are constantly told, not least by Altman himself, that the worst outcome from the adoption of artificial general intelligence could be \u201clights out for all of us\u201d, somebody needs to find a voice here.<\/p>\n

If the old board judged, for example, that Altman was unfit for the job because he was taking OpenAI down a reckless path, lights-wise, there would plainly be an obligation to speak up. Or, if the fear is unfounded, the architects of the failed boardroom coup could do everybody a favour and say so. Saying nothing useful, especially when your previous stance has been that transparency and safety go hand in hand, is indefensible.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the top company in the world\u2019s most explosive industry, the boss was fired and rehired \u2013 and no one has said why
\n\u2022 OpenAI was \u2018working on model so powerful it alarmed staff\u2019<\/p>\n

The OpenAI farce has moved at such speed in the past week that it is easy to forget that nobody has yet said in clear terms why Sam Altman \u2013 the returning chief executive and all-round genius, according to his vocal fanclub \u2013 was fired in the first place. Since we are constantly told, not least by Altman himself, that the worst outcome from the adoption of artificial general intelligence could be \u201clights out for all of us\u201d, somebody needs to find a voice here.
\nIf the old board judged, for example, that Altman was unfit for the job because he was taking OpenAI down a reckless path, lights-wise, there would plainly be an obligation to speak up. Or, if the fear is unfounded, the architects of the failed boardroom coup could do everybody a favour and say so. Saying nothing useful, especially when your previous stance has been that transparency and safety go hand in hand, is indefensible. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the top company in the world\u2019s most explosive industry, the boss was fired and rehired \u2013 and no one has said why \u2022 OpenAI was \u2018working on model so powerful it alarmed staff\u2019 The OpenAI farce has moved at such speed in the past week that it is easy to forget that nobody has …<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s directors have been anything but open. What the hell happened?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}