The employees of OpenAI are protesting the board's abrupt dismissal of CEO Sam Altman, causing a culture clash within the company.
As someone who works in one of the many industries that AI looks set to decimate, it's probably no surprise that I find myself constantly swinging back and forth between the two extremes in the debate over AI and its potential impact on humanity. It's the so-called doomer vs. accelerationist divide, wherein the former is convinced that not only will AI throw huge masses of people out of work -- but it might also herald a bleak, dystopian future that hastens the end of humanity.
And then there are the accelerationists, the AI bulls who have dollar signs in their eyes and think worriers like me are being overly dramatic. This culture clash is at the heart of the drama roiling Silicon Valley darling OpenAI, the employees of which are up in arms over the board's abrupt dismissal Friday of CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati was tapped as an interim replacement, a position she lasted in for exactly two days until ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear was named as the new interim CE
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