That [edit: sentence] wasn’t specific to Altman; as the top of post notes, these propositions were influenced by both the FTX debacle and Altman. The lack of accountability and oversight at certain EA organizations also contributed to that [edit: sentence], which was intended to assert that understating corruption risk from insiders may be a blind spot for EA more generally.
That being said, I think there are some data points which could suggest that EAs and EA-related entities should have been more skeptical of Altman and OpenAI than they were. As this post notes, there was a large grant to OpenAI in 2017, and as of 2021 their non-safety related jobs were still being promoted on the 80K job board even after some worrisome signs of Altman’s turn in focus. I’ve also seen several AI-focused posters opine that EA’s involvement with OpenAI has been one of the movement’s significant failings, which could suggest an error in trusting Altman’s motives.
That [edit: sentence] wasn’t specific to Altman; as the top of post notes, these propositions were influenced by both the FTX debacle and Altman. The lack of accountability and oversight at certain EA organizations also contributed to that [edit: sentence], which was intended to assert that understating corruption risk from insiders may be a blind spot for EA more generally.
That being said, I think there are some data points which could suggest that EAs and EA-related entities should have been more skeptical of Altman and OpenAI than they were. As this post notes, there was a large grant to OpenAI in 2017, and as of 2021 their non-safety related jobs were still being promoted on the 80K job board even after some worrisome signs of Altman’s turn in focus. I’ve also seen several AI-focused posters opine that EA’s involvement with OpenAI has been one of the movement’s significant failings, which could suggest an error in trusting Altman’s motives.
Okay, got it!
The grant was also to buy a board seat, which makes it very different from a normal grant.
The 80K job promotion is indeed odd.
I think there was plenty of skepticism towards OpenAI, but maybe less so at the top