The lack of leaks could just mean that there’s nothing interesting to leak. Maybe William and others left OpenAI over run-of-the-mill office politics and there’s nothing exceptional going on related to AI.
Rest assured, there is plenty that could leak at OA… (And might were there not NDAs, which of course is much of the point of having them.)
For a past example, note that no one knew that Sam Altman had been fired from YC CEO for similar reasons as OA CEO, until the extreme aggravating factor of the OA coup, 5 years later. That was certainly more than ‘run of the mill office politics’, I’m sure you’ll agree, but if that could be kept secret, surely lesser things now could be kept secret well past 2029?
At least one of them has explicitly indicated they left because of AI safety concerns, and this thread seems to be insinuating some concern—Ilya Sutskever’s conspicuous silence has become a meme, and Altman recently expressed that he is uncertain of Ilya’s employment status. There still hasn’t been any explanation for the boardroom drama last year.
If it was indeed run-of-the-mill office politics and all was well, then something to the effect of “our departures were unrelated, don’t be so anxious about the world ending, we didn’t see anything alarming at OpenAI” would obviously help a lot of people and also be a huge vote of confidence for OpenAI.
It seems more likely that there is some (vague?) concern but it’s been overridden by tremendous legal/financial/peer motivations.
The lack of leaks could just mean that there’s nothing interesting to leak. Maybe William and others left OpenAI over run-of-the-mill office politics and there’s nothing exceptional going on related to AI.
Rest assured, there is plenty that could leak at OA… (And might were there not NDAs, which of course is much of the point of having them.)
For a past example, note that no one knew that Sam Altman had been fired from YC CEO for similar reasons as OA CEO, until the extreme aggravating factor of the OA coup, 5 years later. That was certainly more than ‘run of the mill office politics’, I’m sure you’ll agree, but if that could be kept secret, surely lesser things now could be kept secret well past 2029?
At least one of them has explicitly indicated they left because of AI safety concerns, and this thread seems to be insinuating some concern—Ilya Sutskever’s conspicuous silence has become a meme, and Altman recently expressed that he is uncertain of Ilya’s employment status. There still hasn’t been any explanation for the boardroom drama last year.
If it was indeed run-of-the-mill office politics and all was well, then something to the effect of “our departures were unrelated, don’t be so anxious about the world ending, we didn’t see anything alarming at OpenAI” would obviously help a lot of people and also be a huge vote of confidence for OpenAI.
It seems more likely that there is some (vague?) concern but it’s been overridden by tremendous legal/financial/peer motivations.