Sam Altman reinstated: Early this morning, news broke that Sam Altman had been reinstated as OpenAI's CEO, ending five days of tech world drama.
It's looking more and more like the board's defense they gave for firing him—that he was not "consistently candid" in his communications with them—was no cover for a smoking gun, but rather the culmination of petty drama and tensions between those who want artificial intelligence development to slow down, believing the future of humanity is imperiled by this technology, and those who see its value and want to forge ahead. (Disclosure: My husband works for OpenAI.)
