Holden is now going to be a board member at Open AI as part of the deal. (Boo! We don’t like him because he screwed up #2 and we don’t respect his judgments about AI. Someone better should be on the board instead!) (Yay! He didn’t write the people we don’t like a blank check. That’s a terrible idea in this climate!)
That sounds like a strawman. The problem isn’t that Holden is now a board member of Open AI. OpenPhil wrote: “We expect the primary benefits of this grant to stem from our partnership with OpenAI, rather than simply from contributing funding toward OpenAI’s work.”
There’s the suggestion that having Holden on the board of Open AI is worth millions of dollars of philanthropic money.
They lack useful information on the topic (since it is a very hard topic) so they export the actual research of the thing and spending of the money to an organization that seems better suited to doing just that: Open AI.
No. They think that Open AI’s leadership is sufficiently bad that it’s worth to spend millions of dollars to put Holden on the board of Open AI to push Open AI in a positive direction. That action presumes that they do have enough useful information to affect what Open AI is doing.
That sounds like a strawman. The problem isn’t that Holden is now a board member of Open AI. OpenPhil wrote: “We expect the primary benefits of this grant to stem from our partnership with OpenAI, rather than simply from contributing funding toward OpenAI’s work.”
There’s the suggestion that having Holden on the board of Open AI is worth millions of dollars of philanthropic money.
No. They think that Open AI’s leadership is sufficiently bad that it’s worth to spend millions of dollars to put Holden on the board of Open AI to push Open AI in a positive direction. That action presumes that they do have enough useful information to affect what Open AI is doing.