That Was The Week 2023 #44
That Was The week 2023 #44
The OpenAI Debacle - e /acc versus e /a
It's a day late for That Was The Week. In mitigation, what a day it was, with the firing of Sam Altman at OpenAI, and the demotion, then resignation of Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki, the company's director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, a seven-year researcher at the startup.
The dust is beginning to settle, and my best interpretation of the events comes from these x posts by Kara Swisher and Elad Gil, focused on effective altruism (e /a) and the e /acc belief in unfettered AI.