>>nickru+(OP)
This all seems so weird, and the list of Board members doesn't make this any easier to understand. Apart from the 3 insiders, there are 3 other board members. 2 of them seem complete no names and might not qualify for any important corporate board. In a for profit shareholders in theory control the board, in a non profit I am not even sure of who really has control over things.
>>crop_r+k2
The board does and they are not supposed to have a financial stake in the non-profit. Usually they just vote their friends on. Welcome to the loony tunes that is nonprofit management.
Clearly Microsoft staked its whole product roadmap on 4 random people with no financial skin in the game.
>>dougmw+e3
That does sound like loony tunes. If the board elects itself then I think it is a very very bad arrangement for something as important as OpenAI.
>>crop_r+N3
That is one problem with non-profits. They end up with completely unprofessional leadership because they hire their friends who are crazies just like themselves.
When things cool down in a few months we will learn Altman and Brockman were some of the few sane people on the board.