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things are getting messy at open AI again oh man is this the most like telen Nolla of a Company the company had other
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high-profile departure again this week with the resignation of yan Leica uh the head of super alignment which is the
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team focused on AI safety that's the words we're going to be all super aligned uh Leica explained his departure
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in a series of social media posts saying in part that open AI safety culture and
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processes have taken a backseat to shiny products and there's been a bunch of shiny products they showed off last week
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uh open it's not the things are not unrelated um open AI has dissolved that super alignment team the company told
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Bloomberg the group will be integrated across research efforts to help achieve safety goals uh Sam Alman put out a
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statement and also did open a co-founder Greg Brockman uh sharing their view of the future they said the company has
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quote raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI so the world can better prepare for it whether they're
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preparing for it or not is a big question there's been at least 11 high-profile exits in the last few
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months um you know this is an issue again of speed versus safety they have been rolling out the products because
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they're deathly terrified of getting rolled over by the big companies I can feel it I can feel such a Netscape
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moment for them um you know uh we'll see uh we'll see what'll happen here but it's definitely a company still shaking
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off or dealing with these issues that they've had these two different types of people who are um involved in this
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company which is some that are think this is a a risk to humanity others who are like calm the [ __ ] down let's make
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some stuff and we'll figure it out later um uh one of the things that got a lot of reporting was open aa's offboarding
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agreements that have non-disclosure and non-disparagement Provisions not uncommon but theirs were particularly
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stringent if a departy employee violated these Provisions they were in danger of
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losing all their vested Equity according to Vox Sam mman confirmed in a tweet there was a provision about potential
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Equity cancellation for departing employees but it was never en forced the company is currently changing that
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language uh it sounds like they're just like just tough customers on that thing um it is further than other people do
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it's usually more Talent friendly in general in Silicon Valley Scott what are your thoughts on all this when Ilia was
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part of the board yeah when when he was part of the board that fired Sam Alman if you're going to stab the prince you
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better kill him when he came back Ilia became the information age equivalent of prosan he was dead man walking he just
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wasn't going to survive oh no feelings for firing me come on water under the bridge that just wasn't going to happen
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and this is similar to meta the fastest way to get a severance check is to go to
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work for the trust and safety team because every once in a while in response to real heat they'll pretend to
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give a good godamn and they'll create a trust and safety team I doubt Mark listens to them or cares about them and
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then under the cover of dark fires most of them I like the fact that open AI is becoming more like what they really are
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and that is they are a for-profit company and they're not pretending tough mothers and they're not pretending to be
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any anything I'd rather them be like New Yorkers that's that's one of the reasons
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I love New York versus doing business in California is they don't pretend to be something they aren't
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and this is a four profit companies and open AI are going to be so good at making profit they shouldn't be trusted
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to do anything else and the fact and first off and also well except they were founded with a slightly different idea
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but go ahead yeah and then when they took 11 billion those people wanted their money back so they should have
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never taken that money but the one thing the one compensatory thing here is that
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any group of people that decides to call themselves super alignment should be fired that is I thought you'd like that
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is those people should endure a certain amount of ridicule and pain what are your thoughts well you know AI is going
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to kill us Scott I mean it's a really interesting thing because these people are you know there's a group over in
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anthropic that are much more concerned in that regard and I think they have a right to be absolutely I think listen
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I've always been a safety let why are you not paying attention to any bit of safety from the very get-go and so I
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would naturally be affiliated with the super alignment people at the same time for them to think this is anything other
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than a for-profit institution is kind of well then go on a board go on a you know
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go to Stanford and and become a high-profile naysayer of these things or write a book like burnbook right um
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because they're inside these companies I think that because of the amount of money here there's just no way people
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aren't going to be aligned around the money making and you know some people are like oh you like Sam mman I said I
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said yes but he's a tough [ __ ] I was like are you kidding he's so aggressive he's so much like all the
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people he you know he's just like he's not like Elon because elon's a toxic piece of [ __ ] sometimes and most of the
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time uh I don't consider Sam like that but he is interested in not having this company die you know he is interested in
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making it the most dominant I have no question he's hyper aggressive and just as feral as the rest of them and so um
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you know they're going to have these things because what they want to do is pretend that they care about this safety
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stuff which they do peripherally you know more than other people I guess they bring it up more but they don't they
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just don't care about that issue and they're not they're not they're not going to be around to see the machines
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eating Us Alive or something like you know what I mean like it's it's not their job it's it's well but it this is
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the problem its birth was like it was like two it was like a hippie parent and a a non- hippie parent right and they're
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fighting forever this group these groups of people are fighting forever and so they are never going to be this whole
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company isn't going to be in alignment it started out out of alignment and they're never going to I know that I'm
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using a term about the idea of making sure it's safe but they will never this company will never it might be what
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kills them right it might be what kills them because they're going to get unusual it's like Google saying don't be
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evil that was this one big mistake like why did they do that right because they're evil not evil that's too far but
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you know what I mean like that that that whole cosplaying about being heroic has
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always been a problem for that's not these companies always figure out they're like okay unless we're re Ben
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and Jerry's let's be honest folks we all want our own big home we all want to take care of our kids we all want a
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broader selection set of mates than we deserve so let's let's stop let's stop pretending where it's dangerous is that
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we keep thinking that Sam Alman is actually a better generation of leaders we don't need to be as worried about AI
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because Sam's in charge and he'll speak in hush tones and say how concerned he is and what it does is it dampens the
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urgency in the need to elect people who can craft legislation to regulate these guys that's right it's not Sam's job
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that's exactly right his Sam is doing his job he's firing people who get in the way of him making being the no if
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Sam were to lose to to gemini or to llama or whatever or xai they would say yeah but he was more ethical and more
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concerned and we love him for that he's not going to get a statue for that let's
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just say there have to be ethical things if you're working for this kind like it's working for Palante here you're
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going to make defense department stuff don't work there like that you know or you know the Google employees that's
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different because Google sort of gave them an in to to complain because they were like we're better than this but
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they're really not better than this right so I think when you you sort of you know you you per have a performative
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nature of being being heroic you're going to be slapped later cuz you're going to let people down period and it's
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going to be very clear and again the reason my first line in my book was and so it was capitalism after all sticks
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that's what it is that's what's happening here and I think you all should go off and form a group of people
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that's that scares the [ __ ] B Jesus out of of the potential and you go up to Congress and you march in those offices
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and you explain to them why they need to make legislation that's what that's what
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you need to do I think when people all backed Sam a lot of people are like oh they love them I'm like no they love the
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money and they want to make money here and they you know and and they want to make they want to be not just make money
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they want to be at the coolest company making the [ __ ] they want to be at the winning company that makes them Rich
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yeah and also is the coolest company right that's more than that more than that anyway we'll see what happens I
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thought Yan's um I thought his his series of tweets was interesting but it doesn't really I'm sorry Yan do
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something else