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Why Does An Openai Insider Quit Instead Of Arguing For Cultural Transformation From Within?

People at OpenAI run on fumes in a frenetic environment where a friend sprinted down stairs with a laptop. An OpenAI insider considered staying to argue for cultural transformation or to bring in nuclear experts for advice. Managers asked if anything would make the insider stay. But OpenAI is such a machine moving so fast that the insider did not think the kind of change needed could be driven from within.

The Ezra Klein Show · ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. · at 30:15 · ·Transcript

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