Honestly, maybe further controversial opinion, but this [30 million for a board seat at what would become the lead co. for AGI, with a novel structure for nonprofit control that could work?] still doesn’t feel like necessarily as bad a decision now as others are making it out to be?
The thing that killed all value of this deal was losing the board seat(s?), and I at least haven’t seen much discussion of this as a mistake.
I’m just surprised so little prioritization was given to keeping this board seat, it was probably one of the most important assets of the “AI safety community and allies”, and there didn’t seem to be any real fight with Sam Altman’s camp for it.
So Holden has the board seat, but has to leave because of COI, and endorses Toner to replace, ”… Karnofsky cited a potential conflict of interest because his wife, Daniela Amodei, a former OpenAI employee, helped to launch the AI company Anthropic.
Given that Toner previously worked as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy, Loeber speculates that Karnofsky might’ve endorsed her as his replacement.”
Like, maybe it was doomed if they only had one board seat (Open Phil) vs whoever else is on the board, and there’s a lot of shuffling about as Musk and Hoffman also leave for COIs, but start of 2023 it seems like there is an “AI Safety” half to the board, and a year later there are now none. Maybe it was further doomed if Sam Altman has the, take the whole company elsewhere, card, but idk… was this really inevitable? Was there really not a better way to, idk, maintain some degree of control and supervision of this vital board over the years since OP gave the grant?
Honestly, maybe further controversial opinion, but this [30 million for a board seat at what would become the lead co. for AGI, with a novel structure for nonprofit control that could work?] still doesn’t feel like necessarily as bad a decision now as others are making it out to be?
The thing that killed all value of this deal was losing the board seat(s?), and I at least haven’t seen much discussion of this as a mistake.
I’m just surprised so little prioritization was given to keeping this board seat, it was probably one of the most important assets of the “AI safety community and allies”, and there didn’t seem to be any real fight with Sam Altman’s camp for it.
So Holden has the board seat, but has to leave because of COI, and endorses Toner to replace, ”… Karnofsky cited a potential conflict of interest because his wife, Daniela Amodei, a former OpenAI employee, helped to launch the AI company Anthropic.
Given that Toner previously worked as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy, Loeber speculates that Karnofsky might’ve endorsed her as his replacement.”
Like, maybe it was doomed if they only had one board seat (Open Phil) vs whoever else is on the board, and there’s a lot of shuffling about as Musk and Hoffman also leave for COIs, but start of 2023 it seems like there is an “AI Safety” half to the board, and a year later there are now none. Maybe it was further doomed if Sam Altman has the, take the whole company elsewhere, card, but idk… was this really inevitable? Was there really not a better way to, idk, maintain some degree of control and supervision of this vital board over the years since OP gave the grant?
COI == conflict of interest.