Many are discussing the validity of the decision of the OpenAI Board of Directors to dismiss Sam Altman, and then to retreat and submit to an existential threat to a giant company, represented by the mass exodus of the best talent to Microsoft, one of the investors and competitors as well, to be reappointed.
The seismic shock or “tsunami” of events that included the dismissal and eventual reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman was a shock to everyone, but the company was always going to reach a breaking point.
What is built on weak or wrong foundations will not last, and instability eventually gives way to chaos. It was the fault line and the cause of instability, OpenAI’s dual mission, which is to build artificial intelligence that is more intelligent than humanity, while also ensuring that artificial intelligence will be safe and beneficial to humanity, which are two extremes that should not be brought together, because advanced artificial intelligence will harm humans. Inevitably, in many ways, from entrenching prejudice to enabling bioterrorism and other compounding risks.
The biggest earthquake the technology industry has witnessed in decades began with the board’s dismissal of Sam Altman, due to an alleged lack of transparency, after which the company’s president, Greg Brockman, resigned in protest, followed by the duo’s attempts to convince the board of directors to return them to their positions, with negotiations faltering, after which they both accepted job offers from A major player in artificial intelligence is Microsoft, the main investor in OpenAI. On the third day, 95% of OpenAI employees threatened to leave for Microsoft as well, which literally meant the end of OpenAI.
The Board of Directors of OpenAI relented and announced that it had reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to the company as CEO, with a new initial board of directors, which is an unprecedented creative chaos in the business sector, but it will not equal the expected fears or aftershocks of artificial intelligence systems. Which would be even more terrifying if the change process ended in a mass exodus of OpenAI employees. The influx of talent from the latter to Microsoft means the deviation of human resources, from a company founded on concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence, to a company that hardly bothers to talk about this concept.
Has one individual become greater than the organization? Is integrity more important than profitability? Is humanity threatened by profit practices overcoming professional ethics?
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2024-01-01 22:07:30
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