Further, Adam dâAngelo is not, to my knowledge, an EA/âAI safety person, but also voted to remove Sam and was a necessary vote, which is strong evidence there were more legit reasons
The âhighly inappropriate behaviorâ is question was nearly entirely about violating safety protocols, and by the time Murati and Sutskever defected to Altmanâs side the conflict was clearly considered by both sides to be a referendum on EA and AI safety, to the point of the board seeking to nominate rationalist Emmett Shear as Altmanâs replacement.
I donât think the boardâs side considered it a referendum. Just because the inappropriate behaviour was about safety doesnât mean that a high integrity board member who is not safety focused shouldnât fire them!
It doesnât matter what you think they should have done, the fact is, Murati and Sutskever defected to Altmanâs side after initially backing his firing, almost certainly because the consensus discourse quickly became focused on EA and AI safety and not the object-level accusations of inappropriate behavior.
âwidely (and imo falsely) believed that the openai coup was for EA reasonsâ
False why?
Because Sam was engaging in a bunch of highly inappropriate behaviour for a CEO like lying to the board which is sufficient to justify the board firing him without need for more complex explanations. And this matches private gossip Iâve heard, and the boardâs public statements
Further, Adam dâAngelo is not, to my knowledge, an EA/âAI safety person, but also voted to remove Sam and was a necessary vote, which is strong evidence there were more legit reasons
The âhighly inappropriate behaviorâ is question was nearly entirely about violating safety protocols, and by the time Murati and Sutskever defected to Altmanâs side the conflict was clearly considered by both sides to be a referendum on EA and AI safety, to the point of the board seeking to nominate rationalist Emmett Shear as Altmanâs replacement.
I donât think the boardâs side considered it a referendum. Just because the inappropriate behaviour was about safety doesnât mean that a high integrity board member who is not safety focused shouldnât fire them!
It doesnât matter what you think they should have done, the fact is, Murati and Sutskever defected to Altmanâs side after initially backing his firing, almost certainly because the consensus discourse quickly became focused on EA and AI safety and not the object-level accusations of inappropriate behavior.
Ilya too!