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His last sentence is the main hint. Disagreement over dangers of AGI discoveries and how to handle I’d guess.

Given the way the board announcement ended on the commitment to the original charter of AI for everyone and the way this mention of safety is being thrown in, I suspect it may have been strong disagreements over continuing to be closed with research in the name of safety or open with the research community in the sake of advancement for all.

GPT4 has been closed for a long long time, nothing technical was ever released. The board can't suddenly one day wake up from a long sleep and decide that things have to become open right this minute.

Maybe it didn't. Maybe it's been pushing on this for a bit and Altman kept paying lip service to it or made commitments in their eyes, and those weren't being followed through on

> pushing..for a bit

They could have waited another 30 mins for the markets to close before making the move. This isn’t the culmination of a long-standing problem.

A non profit board is not as professional as a public company board.

Looking at the people on the current board, it doesn't seem they have a lot of experience being independent board members in large public corporations.

No non-profit has this level of public scrutiny, It could just be that they were sloppy because they are not professional board members.

I think claiming to quit over AGI danger is more believable to outsiders than “I want to spend time with family, totally coincidentally after my boss was fired”

No one actually believes in that baloney, not enough to fire the CEO over anyway.

The money & startup people co-opted the scientific non-profit. Not vice versa.

I mean AGI

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