“OpenAI #8: The Right to Warn” by Zvi

The fun at OpenAI continues.

We finally have the details of how Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired, at least according to Leopold. We have a letter calling for a way for employees to do something if frontier AI labs are endangering safety. And we have continued details and fallout from the issues with non-disparagement agreements and NDAs.

Hopefully we can stop meeting like this for a while.

Due to jury duty and it being largely distinct, this post does not cover the appointment of General Paul Nakasone to the board of directors. I’ll cover that later, probably in the weekly update.

The Firing of Leopold Aschenbrenner

What happened that caused Leopold to leave OpenAI? Given the nature of this topic, I encourage getting the story from Leopold by following along on the transcript of that section of his appearance on the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast or [...]

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Outline:

(00:43) The Firing of Leopold Aschenbrenner

(11:24) Daniel Kokotajlo Speaks and The Right to Warn

(15:07) The Right to Warn Letter

(18:48) Signed by (alphabetical order):

(19:34) Endorsed by (alphabetical order):

(34:17) You’ll Be Hearing From Our Lawyer

(35:29) Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law

(41:31) What I Can Tell You I Used To Not Be Able To Tell You

(47:50) Clarifying the Mission

(52:04) Sam Altman Told the SEC He Was Chairman of YC

(53:26) YC Has an Investment in OpenAI

(54:33) OpenAI is Hiring a Lot of Lobbyists

(55:05) OpenAI Says They Value Privacy

(55:58) Microsoft Went Around the Safety Board

(56:39) I Don’t Really Know What You Were Expecting

(57:12) Where Did Everybody Go?

(59:43) In Other OpenAI News

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First published:
June 17th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q3zs7E7rktHsESXaF/openai-8-the-right-to-warn

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.