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Allow me to counter:

> Ignoring risks

This is not even on topic. You seem to think it is literally about the risk of a magical incantation of AGI that someone was going to accidentally utter. Instead it is about working the conversation for support.

> Sam doesn’t value technical leadership

He doesn’t prioritize technical decisions over all, which is want you want from an organizational leader. He has hired and enabled some of the best technical competency in a generation to do things no one thought were possible.

> The board didn’t believe he was being cooperative

“Being cooperative” as defined here is so naive as to be comical on its own. Internal politics are a constant presence. His job is not to be maximally cooperative without regard for strategy.

The only thing that is clear to me is that non profit structures as presently conceived are totally inadequate for the use OpenAI has put them to and in particular are not up to withstanding growth pressures.



>things no one thought were possible.

Yea, no one... except Googlers


You’re right, I shouldn’t have gone absolute. However many Googlers also thought many other things were possible that weren’t, so from here maybe we devolve into discussions of the relative cost/value of Type I vs Type II error.




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