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OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)

submitted 11 months ago by jayandp@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] aard@kyu.de 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There were some rumours that he was pushing the commercial side too fast, potentially ignoring ethical issues. Given Altmans lobbying against AI regulation in the EU I find that plausible.

Since now apparently the investors won it proves that the special structure of for-profit owned by non-profit intended to keep them honest does not work - and we urgently need to have regulation in place, as self-regulation does not work.

[–] guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure if I'd call this an investor win. More or less 90% of the company threatened to leave. It made sense on their part to do whatever it took to get him back. Anyways, looks like he stopped for a couple seconds to think about how smart it really was to join Microsoft.