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Sitaraman: OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman for lacking candor, not safety
“The board in their statement as sort of lacking in detail as it was said that they didn't fire Sam for anything but lack of candor, right? Like they didn't fire him because he wasn't AI safety enough.”
Sitaraman: Reports of a Q* letter prompting the OpenAI coup are false
“One thing that I've now heard from a few different people is that the reports about the, a letter being sent to the board about Q star that, that that's not true. And then it didn't precipitate the board's decision.”
Sitaraman: Marc Andreessen's manifesto equated slowing AI development to murder
“When he did his tech optimist manifesto, when was that? A couple months ago. Didn't he say that any type of deceleration of AI would cost lives? And so if you're slowing down AI development, you're basically a murderer.”
Sitaraman: OpenAI's superalignment team tried to create an automated AI scientist
“And one of the projects that, you know, we reported on was they were trying to create an AI scientist. So this is like not a science, like a human scientist, like an AI scientist that would study alignment.”