Further, Adam d’Angelo is not, to my knowledge, an EA/AI safety person, but also voted to remove Sam and was a necessary vote, which is strong evidence there were more legit reasons
The “highly inappropriate behavior” is question was nearly entirely about violating safety protocols, and by the time Murati and Sutskever defected to Altman’s 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 Altman’s replacement.
I don’t think the board’s side considered it a referendum. Just because the inappropriate behaviour was about safety doesn’t mean that a high integrity board member who is not safety focused shouldn’t fire them!
It doesn’t matter what you think they should have done, the fact is, Murati and Sutskever defected to Altman’s 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.
“widely (and imo falsely) believed that the openai coup was for EA reasons”
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 I’ve heard, and the board’s public statements
Further, Adam d’Angelo is not, to my knowledge, an EA/AI safety person, but also voted to remove Sam and was a necessary vote, which is strong evidence there were more legit reasons
The “highly inappropriate behavior” is question was nearly entirely about violating safety protocols, and by the time Murati and Sutskever defected to Altman’s 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 Altman’s replacement.
I don’t think the board’s side considered it a referendum. Just because the inappropriate behaviour was about safety doesn’t mean that a high integrity board member who is not safety focused shouldn’t fire them!
It doesn’t matter what you think they should have done, the fact is, Murati and Sutskever defected to Altman’s 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!