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Microsoft & Departures from OpenAI 5/20/24

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Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa breaks down the latest news on executive departures from OpenAI, big tech, AI plans, and more.

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0:00.0

The drama at Open AI continues as more executives continue to depart that company.

0:04.7

Adjir Durbosa has more on the moves and what it says about the company's future something

0:08.9

you tackled as well last week, Dee.

0:10.9

That's right. And again, Carl, there's more questions than answers, but here's

0:14.4

what we do know. The people responsible for developing responsible AI and focusing

0:18.8

on the long-term risks, they're dropping like flies from the company.

0:21.8

But Sam Altman, who survived an ouster about six months ago,

0:24.9

he's running the company more like a typical Silicon Valley startup

0:28.4

than a nonprofit research lab, which it technically still is, by the way. Ilia Sitskaver's departure that was followed last week by Jan Liki's exit.

0:36.8

Those are the two people in charge of the safety team at Open AI,

0:40.4

a team called Super Alignment.

0:42.1

Yon Liki on the way out, posting on X.

0:44.9

Over the past few years, safety culture and processes

0:47.7

have taken a backseat to shiny products,

0:50.9

which isn't a problem.

0:52.4

If the mission is to ship products, make

0:54.1

money, but open AI was supposed to be different. Its mission from the very

0:57.5

beginning was to ensure that AGII artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

1:04.0

Now that has given the company an edge in attracting talent to

1:08.0

that want to work there because it has meaningful impact.

1:11.0

That's also a quirk of Silicon Valley that has been true since

1:14.1

Google's don't be evil days. So this change in culture has important implications

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