The OpenAI Debacle - e /acc versus e /a

<p>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, J<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/three-senior-openai-researchers-resign-as-crisis-deepens?rc=7tduvt">akub 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</a>.</p> <p>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.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message