Helen Toner was apparently willing to let OpenAI be destroyed because of a general feeling that the organization was moving too fast or commercializing too much.
The source you linked doesn’t seem to support the claim you made. It supports that Helen was willing to let the organization be destroyed, but not that this is due to “a general feeling that the organization was moving too fast or commercializing too much”.
I also don’t know why you would otherwise think this is (clearly) true. Like it could be true, but I don’t see any strong evidence supporting this and this certainly isn’t the official reason the board gave.
One also might argue that Altman was willing to see the organization destroyed, and that he was the one raising the threat of taking OpenAI with him if he went down.
I mean he didn’t threaten to take the team with him, he was just going to do so.
We also don’t know what went on behind the scenes, and it seems plausible that many OpenAI employees were (mildly) pressured into signing by the pro-Sam crowd.
So if counterfactually he hadn’t been willing to destroy the company, he could have assuaged the people closest to him, and likely the dynamics would have been much different.
I was basing my (uncertain) interpretation on a number of sources, and I only linked to one, sorry.
In particular, the only substantive board disagreement that I saw was over Toner’s report that was critical of OpenAI for releasing models too quickly, and Sam being upset over it.
The source you linked doesn’t seem to support the claim you made. It supports that Helen was willing to let the organization be destroyed, but not that this is due to “a general feeling that the organization was moving too fast or commercializing too much”.
I also don’t know why you would otherwise think this is (clearly) true. Like it could be true, but I don’t see any strong evidence supporting this and this certainly isn’t the official reason the board gave.
One also might argue that Altman was willing to see the organization destroyed, and that he was the one raising the threat of taking OpenAI with him if he went down.
Did Sam threaten to take the team with him, or did the team threaten to quit and follow him? From what I saw it looked like the latter.
I mean he didn’t threaten to take the team with him, he was just going to do so.
We also don’t know what went on behind the scenes, and it seems plausible that many OpenAI employees were (mildly) pressured into signing by the pro-Sam crowd.
So if counterfactually he hadn’t been willing to destroy the company, he could have assuaged the people closest to him, and likely the dynamics would have been much different.
I was basing my (uncertain) interpretation on a number of sources, and I only linked to one, sorry.
In particular, the only substantive board disagreement that I saw was over Toner’s report that was critical of OpenAI for releasing models too quickly, and Sam being upset over it.