* Ilya Sutskever is concerned about the company moving too fast (without taking safety into account) under Sam Altman.
* The others on the board that ended up supporting the firing are concerned about the same.
* Ilya supports the firing because he wants the company to move slower.
* The majority of the people working on AI don't want to slow down, either because they want to develop as fast as possible or because they're worried about missing out on profit.
* Sam rallies the "move fast" faction and says "this board will slow us down horribly, let's move fast under Microsoft"
* Ilya realizes that the practical outcome will be more speed/less safety, not more safety, as he hoped, leading to the regret tweet (https://nitter.net/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028)
> People building AGI unable to predict consequences of their actions 3 days in advance.
It’s a reasonable point if these are the people building the future of humanity it’s a little concerning they can’t predict the immediate consequences of their own actions.
On the other hand it shows some honesty being able to admit a mistake in public, also something you might want out of someone building the future of humanity.