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Kathy Mullen's avatar

Thank you for giving us a deeper insight regarding these issues. I felt the need to investigate further and you saved me some invaluable time!

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Ben Recht's avatar

Great piece! And what timing, too.

There's some reporting that suggests that Ilya had been demoted himself a month ago, and this was a power play to retaliate:

https://slate.com/technology/2023/11/sam-altman-fired-openai-mira-murati.html

"About a month ago, “Sutskever’s responsibilities at the company were reduced,” thanks to an oppositional alliance between Altman and Brockman."

The AI safety nonsense might just be cover for standard backstabbing and politics.

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