{"id":93026,"date":"2024-09-27T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93026"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T19:30:26","slug":"should-we-be-concerned-about-whats-happening-at-openai-what-does-this-say-about-the-leader-of-arguably-1-of-the-most-powerful-cos-in-the-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/09\/27\/should-we-be-concerned-about-whats-happening-at-openai-what-does-this-say-about-the-leader-of-arguably-1-of-the-most-powerful-cos-in-the-world-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be concerned about what&#8217;s happening at OpenAI? What does this say about the leader of arguably 1 of the most powerful co&#8217;s in the world today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/OpenAI\/comments\/1fpt5gy\/one_left\/\">One left<\/a><br \/> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/jim_andr\/\">u\/jim_andr<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/OpenAI\/\">OpenAI<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/em>I&#8217;m not trying to gossip here. I post this because Sam Altman is the head of arguably one of the most powerful companies in the world today &#8212; at least in terms of introducing change to a variety of societies throughout the globe (both positive and negative). So when we&#8217;ve now seen almost the entire leadership team head out the door, this certainly gives me major pause. I don&#8217;t like it. <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Items like the ones below begin to capture some of why I&#8217;m troubled and suspicious about these troubling moves.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/09\/27\/sam-altman-openai-equity-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenAI board mulls equity stake for Sam Altman that could be a massive payday<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fortune.com by Dave Smith<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And as Linus Ekenstam points out:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So. hear me out. it\u2019s natural for leadership to change. but if we look at Apple, leadership changes over decades if not more.<\/p>\n<p>Why, if everything is so fast paced, hyper growth oriented and groundbreaking. Do people choose to leave?<\/p>\n<p>I think I and many others are baffled<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linus @ Meta Connect (@LinusEkenstam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LinusEkenstam\/status\/1839203756447248627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-chief-technology-officer-resigns-7a8b4639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wsj.com by Deepa Seetharaman, Berber Jin, and Tom Dotan\u00a0 <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(behind paywall)<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Planned restructuring comes amid personnel upheaval including resignation of chief technology officer\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/25\/tech\/openai-technology-chief-mira-murati-leaving\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Three more execs out at OpenAI, including technology chief Mira Murati<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from cnn.com by Clare Duffy<br \/>\n<em>OpenAI\u2019s executive exodus is continuing with three top leaders announcing their exits Wednesday, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From DSC: I&#8217;m not trying to gossip here. I post this because Sam Altman is the head of arguably one of the most powerful companies in the world today &#8212; at least in terms of introducing change to a variety of societies throughout the globe (both positive and negative). So when we&#8217;ve now seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,387,86,209,112,72,37,35,178,95,74,239,869,480,20,454,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-corporate-business-world","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global-globalization","category-leadership","category-new-business-models","category-open-ai","category-society","category-strategy","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93026"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93051,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93026\/revisions\/93051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}