The Case Against Sam Altman

OpenAI’s Misaligned Superaligners > they had undeniably good intentions > but companies, economies, nations, are built on compromise > leadership is forced to make those decisions sometimes Counterfactual > Jan and Superalignment team were listened to > 4o release was delayed to 2025 > what would have happened? > Elevenlabs had professional q... See more

"According to people familiar with the board's thinking, members had grown so untrusting of Altman that they felt it necessary to double-check nearly everything he told them," the WSJ report said. The sources said it wasn't a single incident that led to the firing, "but a consistent, slow erosion of trust over time that made them increasingly uneas... See more

Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event hosted November 6, with Sam front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products was... See more