<story><title>OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/openai-facts-from-a-weekend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>founderspend</author><text>Very few are talking about Adam D&amp;#x27;Angelo&amp;#x27;s insane conflicts of interest. Beyond ChatGPT being a killshot for Quora, the recently launched ChatGPT store puts Adam&amp;#x27;s recent effort, Poe, under existential threat. OpenAI Dev Day has been cited as the final straw, but is it mere coincidence that the event and subsequent fallout occurred less than a week after Poe announced their AI creator economy?&lt;p&gt;Adam had no incentive to kill OpenAI, but he had every incentive to get the org to reign in their commercialization efforts and to instead focus on research and safety initiatives, taking the heat off Poe while still providing it with the necessary API access to power the product.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s crazy to speculate that Adam might have drummed up concern amongst the board over Sam&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;dangerous&amp;quot; shipping velocity, sweeping up Ilya in the hysteria who now seems to regret taking part. Sam and Greg have both signaled positive sentiment towards Ilya, which points to them possibly believing he was misguided.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/openai-facts-from-a-weekend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alephnerd</author><text>Because everyone else is speculating, I&amp;#x27;m gunna join the bandwagon too.
I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman.&lt;p&gt;Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.&lt;p&gt;Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.&lt;p&gt;- Adam D&amp;#x27;Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman&lt;p&gt;- Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy&lt;p&gt;- Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy&lt;p&gt;Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.&lt;p&gt;In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz</text></comment>