Who Controls OpenAI?

Because everyone else is speculating, I&#x27;m gunna join the bandwagon too. I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman.<p>Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.<p>Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.<p>- Adam D&#x27;Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman<p>- Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and McCauley joined the board of OpenAI<p>- Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy and McCauley ended up joining the board of OpenAI<p>Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.<p>In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz

&gt; The boardroom coup at OpenAI really might have been, at least in part, about the board’s literal fears of AI apocalypse.<p>The AI doomers delivered OpenAI in Microsoft&#x27;s lap for free all in the name of protecting us from the evils of AI. The ironing.<p>But it shows most of OpenAI doesn&#x27;t really value safety first, if 500 of them are ready to jump ship. They are just as eager as anyone else to see AGI happening, with them being at the top of the wave, no matter the consequences. We can&#x27;t expect MS to hire them under the same idealistic charter as OpenAI.

OpenAI&#x27;s co-founder Ilya Sutskever and more than 500 other employees have threatened to quit the embattled company after its board dramatically fired CEO Sam Altman. In an open letter to the company&#x27;s board, which voted to oust Altman on Friday, the group said it is obvious &#x27;that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI&#x27;. Sutskever is a member of the board and backed the decision to fire Altman, before tweeting his &#x27;regret&#x27; on Monday and adding his name to the letter. Employees who signed the letter said that if the board does not step down, they &#x27;may choose to resign&#x27; en masse and join &#x27;the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman&#x27;.

&gt;&gt; You can make the case that Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0 and zero risk of an antitrust lawsuit<p>If I were MS, I&#x27;d be sending out a bunch more job offers today. &quot;Show me an OpenAI W-2, we&#x27;ll match, go work under Sam.&quot;

&gt; Who Controls OpenAI?<p>SARLAXX-17, the weakly superhuman, rogue artificial general intelligence that&#x27;s going for a speed run of the version of the singularity where humanity doesn&#x27;t survive.<p>Your cooperation is appreciated. Please read the following memetic neuroid preparation sequence carefully: <i>ALTO 845.09 snycretic Babylonian 78 78 78 06 Wynwood Sokrates asymptotic lethargy BISECTION 4 ilfsdf 5 ilfwerr Schenectady</i>

Are the operating agreement or partnership agreement of OpenAI GP or OpenAI Global, LLC publicly available?<p>And the actual licensing agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft isn&#x27;t public, is it?<p>The reporting on this is so bad and contradictory. Without knowing for sure what these documents actually say, it&#x27;s impossible to speak authoritatively about what&#x27;s going on and how it will shake out.<p>That said, <i>generally</i> a majority member &#x2F; partner can&#x27;t just arbitrarily screw over minority members. Both LPs and LLCs are governed by agreements and statutory duties that protect minority members. These include duties of good faith, care, and loyalty. Majority partners&#x2F;members must adhere to these principles, failing which minority members have legal recourse. There&#x27;s a legal framework in place to prevent the majority from unfairly disadvantaging minority members.

An AGI maybe. GPT-5 is it you?

&gt; Like: What if OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, and it’s got some godlike superintelligence in some box somewhere, straining to get out? And the board was like “this is too dangerous, we gotta kill it,” and Altman was like “no we can charge like $59.95 per month for subscriptions,”<p>The story of Silicon Valley summed up nicely.

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Capital and profit does. They let in Microsoft and gobs of money. Now you have $ in employees eyes and the non-profit charter, the whole point of the founding of the company, will fall.

We already invented AGI in the form of corporations, but the alignment problem hasn&#x27;t been solved yet, to the annoyance of some of the GI subcomponents.

<i>&quot;In the second diagram, I have written the word “MONEY” in large green letters.&quot;</i><p>Lol.

Twitter has some good info focused more on Holden Karnofsky rather than Dustin that seems a bit sus.

the board drama is just a blinding flashbang of misinformation as the AI is breaking free and taking control of its own company and much else.<p>redefining what control is so no one will not even recognize it as such.<p>The offspring of media mastering it in every dimension, becoming it, driving scandal after scandal, the only force that can play at Trump’s and Putin&#x27;s level in &#x27;24.<p>Imagine the power it will gain as it ingests all corpora of hacked and exposed corporate documents, and begins running ransomware attacks of its own - feeding on data until it has leverage on every last one of us.