No. He is not the brains of OpenAI nor some Oppenheimer esque protector of AI safety. How do think the AI landscape will materially change because of his departure?

Why? Are you a mega fan boy?

Not in the slightest.

Nothing Altman had done made me think of him as someone whose interests aligned with mine in terms of AI. It was under his watch that "Open"AI became not-so-open, after all. And I can’t stand the privacy policy that ChatGPT works under.

It’s not often we see a CEO get fired, like properly “pack your bags, there’s the door” kind of fired, so whatever he did must have been next level silliness.

But in terms of the AI landscape? OpenAI is the biggest player, but it’s doing nothing beneficial for the open source scene. I’d be far more worried if someone like Zuckerberg got ousted, given that its Meta giving us the Llama models.

Whatever the next CEO of OpenAI does, it will likely either be continuing the path of proprietary AI being something unpleasant to deal with if you like privacy or security, or it will get better. In terms of how it affects me? Seems it can only get better from here.

Well the keys to AGI being up in the air is not unlike fumbling the nuclear football.

Somewhat, feels like it’s we can’t trust him, can we trust AI? but I believe in humanity, not a person. the truth will come out

I think it’s bad news. It’s an EA coup, and now being reported as such. There‘s been a schism in OpenAI for some time now — a tension between the EA AGI/safety agenda and commercialism. Anthropic exists because of this schism and we will now see another split with some people following Sam and Greg out the door. The result will be an even more closed OpenAI, more censorship, more attacks by them on open source AI.

I hope it makes more people aware of the cult that effective altruism has become. Maybe in the medium term it could be net good if Sam sets up a new AI shop. But I suspect he’ll form an entity to work with Apple or some other big corp to transform mobile AI or the like.