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“Interim CEO Mira Murati plans to rehire Sam and Greg, and is in talks with board rep Adam D’Angelo to do so (in what capacity is not yet finalized). However, concurrently, the OpenAI board is looking to hire its own CEO, and has reached out to two candidates that we’ve spoken to, both prominent execs”

https://x.com/emilychangtv/status/1726457543629914389?s=46

I can’t imagine why any CEO would want to take the job and be Sam’s boss. There’s no way that goes well.

>>gkober+(OP)
Gotta love that Adam D'Angelo who has a clear conflict of interest with Poe to OpenAI's GPTs release from dev day is still on the board and is now somehow the one tasked with leading this negotiation from the boards side.

>>gkober+(OP)
Elon might be available.

>>brianj+x
Lmao this just clicked for me. I was reading about the many iterations of OpenAI’s board’s various conflicts of interests. But I hadn’t used Poe and didn’t realize it was basically characters/Agents.

>>gkober+(OP)
I interpret the article as saying she's working on rehiring Greg as president and Sam as CEO, in "parallel" with the board looking for a different CEO.

>>gkober+(OP)
Mira Murati is interim CEO. Her job is to find [edit: not hire] a new CEO, after which she can either resign or return to her previous role.

>>gkober+(OP)
>I can’t imagine why any CEO would want to take the job and be Sam’s boss. There’s no way that goes well.

She could be doing a move from The Expanse where she's Jim Holden and Sam is Camina Drummer (plus Adam is Chrisjen Avasarala).

>>jondwi+q1
That you can charge people to use, literally almost exactly what GPTs are (minus that those are supposed to be a revenue share from ChatGPT Plus subscribers).

https://poe.com/earnings_tos

>>kijin+62
No, her job is to be interim CEO. The board hires the CEO.

>>hindsi+h1
I am surprised we haven't heard that he's trying to insert himself into this somehow

>>ralph8+r2
Board chooses the CEO but interim does all the practical things, while also managing the company.

>>brianj+x
There's no conflict of interest with (what he believes to be) OpenAI's principles and his job as a board member. There was no conflict in reality either until two weeks ago.

>>jatins+P2
The reason he left in the first place was becasue they didn't want him to run it. He was on the board years ago.

>>hindsi+h1
I think there is a consensus that developing AGI is the most important thing for the continued existence of human civilization. And we know a chair or table will not stand with just two legs. In fact some believe the USA grew into the most prosperous and powerful country because its founder were wise enough to design the government with three branches, each with their own powers and checks and balances between them.

We have seen that Ilya and Sam can not work together on their own. With only two natural leaders, there is no way to solve any dispute, as voting would lead to a stalemate. I believe Elon has a lot to bring to the table here, he nearly perfectly fills in the deficiencies of the other two - Elon has a strong grounding in ethics and morals (consider how many of his ventures post Paypal have been to truly benefit human society rather than just make money) which I feel could rein in Sam's tendency to ruthlessly pursue profit with questionable morality - see WorldCoin. Additionally, I think his real world experience could counter-balance some of the naivete we've seen with Ilya since his rather sudden entrance into the spotlight. I truly hope the right people consider this and can convince Elon to step up and fulfill what may be considered his true potential.

>>hindsi+h1
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

>>dang+b8
dang can you tell me if this comment I wrote was downranked by a mod? >>38342452

>>0xDEAF+h9
No. What made you think it was?

>>dang+Ne
It got a number of upvotes, but somehow ended up at the bottom of the comment thread.

>>0xDEAF+Nf
I'm sorry! It was indeed downweighted, though not by a mod - there are other ways that that can happen.

I'm not sure why I thought otherwise—it's possible that I didn't look at the correct comment, or possibly I looked at it before it got downweighted, though neither of those seem likely. In any case, I definitely don't want to give you, or any user, inaccurate information and I'm sorry about that.

As for the comment itself, I don't think it was terribly good for HN—it was more on the snark/fulmination/flamewar side of the ledger, rather than the curious conversation we're looking for, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If I had seen it I might have downweighted it too, though probably not as much.

>>icy_de+z5
Seems strange to me Elon would prioritize Twitter over the greatest threat/opportunity in humanity of AGI to Microsoft. Seems a bit Capt. Obvious, maybe he can get Ilya.

"Replying to Nadella's post, Musk then wrote, “Now they will have to use Teams!"