The Nonlinear Library EA - Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO "in principle" by Fermi-Dirac Distribution
Nov 22, 2023
00:57
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO "in principle", published by Fermi-Dirac Distribution on November 22, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
This was just announced by the OpenAI Twitter account:
Implicitly, the previous board members associated with EA, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, are ("in principle") no longer going to be part of the board.
I think it would be useful to have, in the future, a postmortem of what happened, from an EA perspective. EA had two members on the board of arguably the most important company of the century, and it has just lost them after several days of embarrassment. I think it would be useful for the community if we could get a better idea of what led to this sequence of events.
[update: Larry Summers said in 2017 that he likes EA.]
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This was just announced by the OpenAI Twitter account:
Implicitly, the previous board members associated with EA, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, are ("in principle") no longer going to be part of the board.
I think it would be useful to have, in the future, a postmortem of what happened, from an EA perspective. EA had two members on the board of arguably the most important company of the century, and it has just lost them after several days of embarrassment. I think it would be useful for the community if we could get a better idea of what led to this sequence of events.
[update: Larry Summers said in 2017 that he likes EA.]
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org