OpenAI Board Reappoints Altman and Adds Three Other Directors (reuters.com) 8
As reported by The Information (paywalled), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the company's board along with three new directors. Reuters reports: The company has also concluded the investigation around Altman's November firing, the Information said, referring to the ouster that briefly threw the world's most prominent artificial intelligence company into chaos. Employees, investors and OpenAI's biggest financial backer, Microsoft had expressed shock over Altman's ouster, which was reversed within days. The company will also announce the appointment of three new directors, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, the Information said. "I'm pleased this whole thing is over," Altman said.
"We are excited and unanimous in our support for Sam and Greg [Brockman]," OpenAI chair and former Salesforce executive Bret Taylor told reporters. Taylor said they also adopted "a number of governance enhancements," such as a whistleblower hotline and a new mission and strategy committee on the board. "The mission has not changed, because it is more important than ever before," added Taylor.
An independent investigation by the law firm WilmerHale determined that "the prior Board acted within its broad discretion to terminate Mr. Altman, but also found that his conduct did not mandate removal." The summary, provided by OpenAI, continued: "The prior Board believed at the time that its actions would mitigate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that its actions would destabilize the Company. The prior Board's decision did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security, the pace of development, OpenAI's finances, or its statements to investors, customers, or business partners. Instead, it was a consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust between the prior Board and Mr. Altman."
"We are excited and unanimous in our support for Sam and Greg [Brockman]," OpenAI chair and former Salesforce executive Bret Taylor told reporters. Taylor said they also adopted "a number of governance enhancements," such as a whistleblower hotline and a new mission and strategy committee on the board. "The mission has not changed, because it is more important than ever before," added Taylor.
An independent investigation by the law firm WilmerHale determined that "the prior Board acted within its broad discretion to terminate Mr. Altman, but also found that his conduct did not mandate removal." The summary, provided by OpenAI, continued: "The prior Board believed at the time that its actions would mitigate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that its actions would destabilize the Company. The prior Board's decision did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security, the pace of development, OpenAI's finances, or its statements to investors, customers, or business partners. Instead, it was a consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust between the prior Board and Mr. Altman."
And the reason for three othee directors (Score:2)
Is to make sure Musk doesn't get his autocratic hands on OpenAI and do the same thing to it that he's done to Twitter. Rember last week at this time [slashdot.org] when Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming it was turning into a for-profit entity bent on subduing humanity? Funny thing, the board of OpenAI put out a bunch of emails [slashdot.org] between them and Musk [theguardian.com] showing Musk was all for turning OpenAI into a for-profit entity, but only if he had total control of the board so he could merge OpenAI with Tesla [straitstimes.com].
But you won't h
Yeah - but is that relevant? (Score:3)
Is to make sure Musk doesn't get his autocratic hands on OpenAI and do the same thing to it that he's done to Twitter. Rember last week at this time [slashdot.org] when Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming it was turning into a for-profit entity bent on subduing humanity? Funny thing, the board of OpenAI put out a bunch of emails [slashdot.org] between them and Musk [theguardian.com] showing Musk was all for turning OpenAI into a for-profit entity, but only if he had total control of the board so he could merge OpenAI with Tesla [straitstimes.com].
But you won't hear that on here since it goes against the narrative.
Sounds like an ironic twist, but is it relevant?
Take a look at the court filing [courthousenews.com]. Regardless of whether Musk *encouraged* OpenAI to go for-profit, it seems clear that the original purpose was to make something AI that was open-source.
Here's the relevant quote from the court filing:
Together with Mr. Brockman, the three agreed that this new lab: (a) would be a non-
profit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize
shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety
considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial
reasons (The “Founding Agreement”). Reflecting the Founding Agreement, Mr. Musk named this
new AI lab “OpenAI,” which would compete with, and serve as a vital counterbalance to,
Google/DeepMind in the race for AGI, but would do so to benefit humanity, not the shareholders
of a private, for-profit company (much less one of the largest technology companies in the world)
Here's something completely revolutionary that people could play with and make better... last year at this time the LLaMA model leaked and about 10 years of improvement and development were made in the succeeding 3 months. By open
Replace the entire board with ChatGPT! (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong...
What exactly is over? (Score:2)
Why was the old board knifed?
Re: (Score:1)
Satanism. (Mod me down you fuckers, I dare you!)
You get what you pay for (Score:2)
What did I miss?
Re: (Score:2)
"...mann" is not typically of that cult, only "man."