I don't think anyone in this thread knows what happened, but since we're in a thread speculating why the CEO of the leading AI company was suddenly sacked, the possibility of an unacceptable interpersonal scandal isn't any more outlandish than others' suggestions of fraud, legal trouble for OpenAI, or foundering financials. The suggestion here is simply that Altman having done something "big and dangerous" is not a foregone conclusion.

In the words of Brandt, "well, Dude, we just don't know."

How is that relevant to the specific things the person I was replying to said?

Genuinely: how is it not relevant? Posted quite some time ago sure, but paints an interesting picture

What? Because it has nothing to do with "getting drunk and molesting an intern or tossing out racial slurs at say, some important person at a giant japanese company".

Also I made no claim of anything, just that dismissal can happen for a large variety of reasons. The Arcimoto CEO, for instance, was let go because he couldn't hold his liquor and got a DUI. Brendan Eich got booted from Mozilla for having a political ideology that Mozilla considered a liability.

All kinds of reasons.

Tech isn't like other industries where people in power tend to get away with this stuff with mostly impunity.

That's fine, I was just asking if you were implying particular knowledge about things that happened, because it kinda sounded like it.

My information here is exactly 0.

The implication is that this could be the 'unrelated reason', that he lied to the board about sexually assaulting his sister/step-sister/whatever. Of course, I'm not sure who Annie Altman is or how exactly she is related to Sam or if the allegations are true.

No. I'm saying that there's nothing that can be said about these things until information comes forward. It could be business related, finance, personal, whatever.

If you need evidence that this is sufficient for dismissal, merely stating that impropriety exists is apparently enough to get my first flag on hn after 12 years.