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Opinion | Sam Altman, Sugarcoating the Apocalypse
  + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
My favorite “Twilight Zone” episode is the one where aliens land and, in a sign of their peaceful intentions, give world leaders a book. Government cryptographers work to translate the alien language. They decipher the title — “To Serve Man” — and that’s reassuring, so interplanetary shuttles are set up. But as the cryptographers proceed, they realize — too late — that it’s a cookbook. It was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit to serve man, to keep an eye on galloping A.I.
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At OpenAI, Shear has promised to shed some light into Altman’s departure. In his X post, he pledged to hire an independent investigator to look into what led up to Altman’s ouster and write a report within 30 days. Both Altman and Shear know each other as alumni from the first class of startup founders at Y Combinator. In his post on X, Shear wrote he received a call offering him a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to become interim CEO at San Francisco-based OpenAI. In his post on X, Shear said he checked the reasoning behind the changes at OpenAI before he took the job.
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OpenAI's new interim CEO has said AI could potentially take over jobs like his. Much of the CEO role, Emmett Shear tweeted on Thursday, can be automated. Shear was appointed as OpenAI's top exec after Sam Altman was ousted on Friday by the company board. AdvertisementEmmett Shear, OpenAI's new interim CEO, thinks artificial intelligence can perform most of a CEO's responsibilities. Shear, who was previously the CEO of streaming platform Twitch, reposted a 2021 article that suggested companies automate CEO roles.
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OpenAI sent shockwaves through the tech world Friday when its board ousted Sam Altman as CEO. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . When Altman logged on to the Google Meet link on Friday, he was joined by the entirety of OpenAI's board, Brockman said. Altman's departure has thrown Cerebral Valley , the moniker for San Francisco's booming AI enclave, into a state of uncertainty.
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Mr. Altman appears to have been blindsided, too. Mr. Altman stayed mum about the precise circumstances of his departure on Friday. Unlike some other tech founders, who keep control of their companies via dual-class stock structures, Mr. Altman doesn’t directly own any shares in OpenAI. There are several more quirks about OpenAI’s board. It’s small (six members before Friday, and four without Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman) and includes several A.I.
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