Very interested to find out some of the details here:
Why now? Was there some specific act of wrongdoing that the board discovered (if so, what was it?), or was now an opportune time to make a move that the board members had secretly been considering for a while, or etc?
Was this a pro-AI-safety move that EAs should ultimately be happy about (ie, initiated by the most EA-sympathetic board members, with the intent of bringing in more x-risk-conscious leadership)? Or is this a disaster that will end up installing someone much more focused on making money than on talking to governments and figuring out how to align superintelligence? Or is it relatively neutral from an EA / x-risk perspective? (Update: first speculation I’ve seen is this cautiously optimistic tweet from Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Greg Brockman, president of the board, is also stepping down. How might this be related, and what might this tell us about the politics of the board members and who supported/opposed this decision?
Very interested to find out some of the details here:
Why now? Was there some specific act of wrongdoing that the board discovered (if so, what was it?), or was now an opportune time to make a move that the board members had secretly been considering for a while, or etc?
Was this a pro-AI-safety move that EAs should ultimately be happy about (ie, initiated by the most EA-sympathetic board members, with the intent of bringing in more x-risk-conscious leadership)? Or is this a disaster that will end up installing someone much more focused on making money than on talking to governments and figuring out how to align superintelligence? Or is it relatively neutral from an EA / x-risk perspective? (Update: first speculation I’ve seen is this cautiously optimistic tweet from Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Greg Brockman, president of the board, is also stepping down. How might this be related, and what might this tell us about the politics of the board members and who supported/opposed this decision?
Side note: Greg held two roles: chair of the board, and president. It sounds like he was fired from the former and resigned from the latter role.
Regarding the second question, I made this prediction market: https://manifold.markets/JonasVollmer/in-a-year-will-we-think-that-sam-al?r=Sm9uYXNWb2xsbWVy
Nice! I like this a lot more than the chaotic multi-choice markets trying to figure out exactly why he was fired.