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by NitpickLawyer 2 hours ago
> which over 1000 frontier AI company employees expressed worry about?

Are they the same as these [1] 700 employees?

> More than 700 of OpenAI’s roughly 770 employees have called on the company’s Board of Directors to resign following the removal of former chief executive Sam Altman, suggesting the Board is “incapable of overseeing” the firm, according to multiple news outlets, amid threats by the employees to leave the company and join Altman at Microsoft.

They had the chance. They chose number goes up. Now, once they're on top, they want "everyone" to slow down? How is this not highly hypocritical? There's no cynicism here. It's just black and white that their interest is regulatory capture. Nothing else explains the two choices they've made along the journey.

Remember, the board wanted to slow down the race. The board fired sama. The employees chose sama, fired the board, changed the structure and whatever eles they did.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/11/20/more-than...

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This seems like an oversimplification. OpenAI was on top at the time sama was fired as well.

Furthermore, the reason Anthropic was formed is because a bunch of employees at OpenAI didn't trust sama. And many signatories of this letter are from Anthropic. So those signatories, at least, appear to be taking a consistent position.

The fact that employees across diverse AI firms signed this letter suggests that it's not an effort to achieve tactical advantage by any single AI firm.