From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.
What is your source for the story about Altman being duplicitous with the board in that specific way? I tried at length to look for news about what exactly he had done back when this was happening, and I couldn’t find it.
Honestly, I thought it was from a specific source when I made that comment but I just checked that source and it wasn’t mentioned there so I guess I don’t actually know where I heard it. I do remember that it came out in a comment by one of the board members as to what had happened a while after the dust settled.
Yeah, that’s super interesting. It lines up with what I do remember them saying to the press is part of why it made sense to me. If you do run across something please send it to me; I’m interested.
Some members of the OpenAI board had found Altman an unnervingly slippery operator. For example, earlier this fall he’d confronted one member, Helen Toner, a director at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, at Georgetown University, for co-writing a paper that seemingly criticized OpenAI for “stoking the flames of AI hype.” Toner had defended herself (though she later apologized to the board for not anticipating how the paper might be perceived). Altman began approaching other board members, individually, about replacing her. When these members compared notes about the conversations, some felt that Altman had misrepresented them as supporting Toner’s removal. “He’d play them off against each other by lying about what other people thought,” the person familiar with the board’s discussions told me.
What is your source for the story about Altman being duplicitous with the board in that specific way? I tried at length to look for news about what exactly he had done back when this was happening, and I couldn’t find it.
Honestly, I thought it was from a specific source when I made that comment but I just checked that source and it wasn’t mentioned there so I guess I don’t actually know where I heard it. I do remember that it came out in a comment by one of the board members as to what had happened a while after the dust settled.
Yeah, that’s super interesting. It lines up with what I do remember them saying to the press is part of why it made sense to me. If you do run across something please send it to me; I’m interested.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/the-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai