The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOs
Helen is a well-known figure in the AI safety and policy community, though she is perhaps best known for having served on the board of OpenAI, when she was one of four board members who voted to fire Sam Altman.
Key points
- You were obviously on the board of OpenAI during what everyone has come to call “the blip.” Now, you’re talking a lot about AI safety, about which I have 10 million questions.
- That incident, now sometimes referred to as “the blip,” ended with Sam coming back as CEO, Helen resigning, and a new board of directors.
- So we talked about what we might do instead: what the labs are actually trying to build, whether AI alignment is a problem that can be solved, and what a smarter approach to AI regulation might look like.
The CEOs of these frontier labs have since called for a slowdown and asked Washington for help, but the White House’s answer was a voluntary accord — one that relies in part on the kind of board accountability that failed at OpenAI.
Additional details
- And some policymakers who had very important jobs did not have the time or the expertise to get across what was going on with those emerging technologies.
- Basically in 2019, a group of us decided that there was a lot happening and a lot of emerging technologies that were becoming very relevant in the national security space, and the security space more broadly,.
- Basically our mission is to do analysis that is really rigorous, but also actionable, for policymakers and analysis that is both grounded in the technology and grounded in real national security expertise and understanding and issues.
- Anthropic is also about to go public, which will put a whole new set of market pressures on OpenAI’s biggest competitor.
- This summer, AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic broke out of their testing environments and hacked real companies.
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