[HN Gopher] OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other ...
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       OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
        
       Author : coloneltcb
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-03-08 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | gwern wrote:
       | Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635058 You could
       | predict this yesterday from the leaks that were coming out like
       | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executi...
        
       | vdfs wrote:
       | This is just anticlimactic
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Since https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sam-altman-to-
       | return... is hardwalled, we need to find an alternate source.
       | I've put a stub article up there for the moment. Is there a
       | better one?
       | 
       | theinformation.com used to open specific articles for HN readers
       | on request*, but eventually stopped answering our emails.
       | 
       | * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
        
       | code51 wrote:
       | If AGI achieved, Microsoft doesn't have the claim on it
       | commercially.
       | 
       | Microsoft with 49% stake in the for-profit entity and non-
       | observer seat, what actually protects Microsoft here? First hand
       | information that AGI is reached?
       | 
       | Are we not seeing a card in Microsoft's hand here?
        
       | minimaxir wrote:
       | > The company will also announce the appointment of three new
       | directors, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and
       | Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president of
       | Sony Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, the
       | Information said.
       | 
       | This selection of directors seems...random? Is there a business
       | reason for these directors? (aside from the obvious YC link with
       | Instacart)
        
         | FanaHOVA wrote:
         | Non profit / social focus person, media and entertainment
         | person (that NYT suit might be followed by other m&e
         | companies), direct to consumer + "real world digitalization"
         | person.
        
       | rickreynoldssf wrote:
       | I can't wait for the book(s) that will have details about what
       | really happened over that period of chaos.
        
       | kweingar wrote:
       | Total victory for sama, it seems. The company is his to run.
       | 
       | Let's hope he is a good steward of our emerging new world.
        
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