[tempsy]

Yeah Emmett Shear seems like an odd choice if they’re worried about retention because 1) Twitch was never known to be a particularly great place to work and 2) he stepped down for some reason and not because Twitch was in an amazing place or anything at the time

[himaraya]

Emmett's just a placeholder after Murati turned. I suspect he won't stay in his position for long.

[PepperdineG]

Recursive Interim CEOs. Will there be a Mandelbrot set of Interim CEOs?

[mickdarling]

This particular board won’t even let ChatGPT help the CEO because they’re afraid there’s a Basilisk hiding in every response.

[sgift]

The new research focus demanded by the board in the name of safety will be an CEO AI, which will be aligned to humanities interests - the benchmark to show this will be if it does whatever the board wants. It's the only way to make sure they cannot be stabbed in the back again by a pesky human.

[dehrmann]

And people say there aren't real-world applications to n-ary tree rebalancing.

[vintermann]

I laughed, but actually I think the utility of tree rebalancing is widely appreciated!

[sanxiyn]

Emmett Shear is probably the person most friendly to OpenAI board's AI safety agenda among possible candidates. Source: have a look at his Twitter.