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[googlethrwaway]

Board is not exactly leadership. They meet infrequently and get updates directly from management, they don't go around asking employees what they're working on

[barbazoo → googlethrwaway]

True. So the CTO knew what was happening, wasn’t happy, and then coordinated with the board, is that what appears to have happened?

[threeseed → barbazoo]

CTO who is now acting CEO.

Not making any accusations but that was an odd decision given that there is an OpenAI COO.

[late2part → googlethrwaway]

More supervision than leadership...

[s1artibartfast → googlethrwaway]

Surely Ilya Sutskever must have known what was being worked on as Chief Scientist?

[browningstreet → googlethrwaway]

They do typically have views into strategic plans, roadmaps and product plans.

[naasking → browningstreet]

Going into detail in a talk and discussing AGI may have provided crucial context that wasn't obvious from a PowerPoint bullet point, which is all the board may have seen earlier.