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What Actually Happened with Sam Altman and OpenAI, and What Does It Mean for the Future of Work? // Future Work #62

27 Nov 2023

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Sam Altman is out at OpenAI. Oh, wait. He’s back.From a firing last Friday, causing shockwaves in the industry and beyond, to a subsequent rehiring yesterday, Sam Altman has kept people busy this week.What actually happened with Sam Allan at OpenAI? And what does it mean for the future of work? We've got it all covered in Future Work #62:1. Sam Altman was out at OpenAI: The board of OpenAI shocked the world last Friday by suddenly announcing Sam Altman’s removal as CEO and board member. Sam founded OpenAI in 2015 with 11 others, including Elon Musk. Deep into the night on Tuesday, just four days later, Sam Altman was announced to be rehired.2. Team members, investors, and partners were shocked: Altman's dismissal led to resignations from key positions like Greg Brockman as board chair, backlash from investors, a petition signed by the vast majority of OpenAI employees threatening to walk out if Altman was not rehired and the Board removed, and potential financial challenges.3. The theory of why: The leading theory of the dismissal was that co-founder Ilya Sutskever and certain board members felt Sam’s focus was on commercializing OpenAI’s products like ChatGPT at breakneck speed – in conflict with OpenAI's mission to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”4. The AI landscape is moving faster than ever: This event occurs against rapid advancements in AI, with generative AI technologies like ChatGPT becoming mainstream and developing at the speed of light.5. Impact on us: In the future, AI will be embedded in most knowledge workers’ workstreams. Already, ChatGPT is used by over 70% of knowledge workers, more than double the popularity of Microsoft and Google’s AI tools. Which products OpenAI develops and how they bring them to market immediately impacts our work.I dive into all of this in this spoken version of the Future Work weekly newsletter.Rather read? Go to What Actually Happened with Sam Altman and OpenAI, and What Does It Mean for the Future of Work? // Future Work #62.In Future Work, I scan the news for must-know stories about the employee-centric, happier, distributed, and AI-driven future of work.

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What Actually Happened with Sam Altman and OpenAI, and What Does It Mean for the Future of Work? // Future Work #62

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