OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by bloopernova on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:18PM (#38356986)

"Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board"

I'd like some corroboration for that statement because Sustkever has said very inconsistent things during this whole merry debacle.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by dekhn on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:23PM (#38357041)

Also, since he's on the board, and it wouldn't have been Brockman or Altman who gave him this info... there are only three people left: "non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner."

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by ipaddr on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:53PM (#38357843)

The obvious answer is he was the one Sam gave an opinion on. He was one of the people doing duplicate work (probably the first team). Sam said good things about him to his ally and bad things to another board member. There was a falling out between that board member and Sam and she spilled the beans.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by aidaman on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:30PM (#38359254)

one of the first members to quit was on a team that sounds a lot like a separate team that is doing the same thing as Ilya's Superalignment team.

"Madry joined OpenAI in May 2023 as its head of preparedness, leading a team focused on evaluating risks from powerful AI systems, including cybersecurity and biological threats."

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by djtango on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:20PM (#38358128)

Would you go so far as to say he was not consistently candid...?

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