I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eyebrow raising.

It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.

https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 This guy claims he has "reason" to believe it's a "complete fabrication."

No idea whether to trust this guy or his source more than the original article though.

Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.

If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?

They could have. But they wanted to have it too.

Hellen and Tasha and possibly Adam.

But who has the power to remove the board?

This just reinforces something I've been thinking for a while. When you look people at the top in medium to large companies, you'd think that they are extremely qualified and got there through merit alone. Although this is certainly true in many cases, it's probably not the case most of the time - a combination of luck and contacts often boost people to places they have no business being.

In general, people in high places can just surf the waves and go with the flow in collecting cash and not really make that much difference, relying on the other people closer to the work (engineers and frontline managers). But when making the right decisions can decide the fate of a company, you then see who's supposed to be there and who isn't.