Sam is back in the for-profit and the non-profit board is gone. inversion of control: the tail wagging the dog in corporate governance
[image: image.png] https://openai.com/our-structure the flow of governance control, like water in New Mexico, goes toward money _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home> mobile: (505)577-5828 On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:42 AM Pieter Steenekamp < piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > Hot off the press; Sam is going back to OpenAI. > A new board has been appointed. > It seems like Sam got what he wanted. > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 7:22 am Pieter Steenekamp, < > piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > >> Background >> OpenAI is actually two companies. The original not for profit parent >> company and the for profit subsidiary. >> The parent, not for profit, appoints the board of the for profit >> subsidiary and does not have a fudiciary obligation towards the financial >> well-being of the company, only towards humanity; to ensure that AI is >> developed for the good of humanity. >> On Friday the board fired the CEO, Sam Altman, without giving reasons. >> Since then Sam got an offer from Microsoft to join them and start a new >> AI Microsoft subsidiary. Sam is reluctant to take it, he seems to think >> that will kill OpenAi. >> 95 percent of OpenAI employees signed a letter that if Sam goes to >> Microsoft they will join him. Microsoft said they will accomdate them. >> Now we are waiting - will OpenAI take Sam back? Will Sam and 95 percent >> of OpenAI's employees join MS? >> Or is there something else going to happen? >> A Netflix movie couldn't have more drama and suspens. >> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 2:14 am Marcus Daniels, <mar...@snoutfarm.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/openai-ilya-sutskever-sam-altman-fired/676072/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share >>> >>> >>> >>> *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Marcus Daniels < >>> mar...@snoutfarm.com> >>> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM >>> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >>> friam@redfish.com> >>> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Open AI >>> >>> Rumors I have read: >>> >>> 1) Sam Altman was looking for money from sovereign wealth fund from >>> Saudi Arabia to fund an NVIDIA competitor. And this was one example of >>> him working side gigs not related to the Open AI mission. >>> >>> >>> >>> 2) That the energy demands of LLMs on Azure are just too expensive, and >>> the money lost per query is becoming too expensive, even for Microsoft’s >>> hosting of OpenAI. >>> >>> >>> >>> 3) That there was a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence and >>> Sam Altman wouldn’t press the brakes. >>> >>> >>> >>> *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Pietro Terna < >>> pietro.te...@unito.it> >>> *Date: *Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM >>> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >>> friam@redfish.com> >>> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Open AI >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> can you explain to an old Italian friend the Open AI soap opera or >>> drama? >>> >>> Best, Pietro >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> "It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep >>> truth." Neils Bohr. >>> >>> >>> >>> A https://terna.to.it/breviArticoli.html riporto dei miei brevi articoli su >>> temi di attualità. >>> >>> Asterischi da Verso Itaca a >>> https://verso-itaca.it/asterischi-da-verso-itaca/ >>> >>> >>> >>> Home page: https://terna.to.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/@pietroterna >>> >>> Mastodon: https://mastodon.uno/@PietroTerna >>> >>> >>> >>> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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