As many of you know, over the past week there’s been nearly hourly updates on OpenAI’s recent “15-minute firing” of Sam Altman and the subsequent firestorm that lit up OpenAI and the board members responsible for blindsiding both the public and OpenAI’s investors.

We will examine how OpenAI’s Board impacted the future of OpenAI and AGI development. Most notably, Helen Toner who published a very recent academic paper, criticizing OpenAI’s “frantic corner-cutting” in the release of ChatGPT (as opposed to praising Anthropic’s more “safe” approach of a delayed release of it’s GPT-4 chatbot, Claude).

Sensationalism and conspiracy theories aside, in this session we’ll examine OpenAI’s original board charter, review the facts of what happened, the makeup of OpenAI’s new Board, and speculate on how the week’s events will impact the future of AGI development.