{"id":176411,"date":"2023-11-21T07:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:23:41","slug":"openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Employees Say Firm\u2019s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why does it feel like everybody at OpenAI has lost their mind?<\/p>\n<p>In what\u2019s arguably turning into the hottest AI story of the year, former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/sam-altman-leaving-openai\" class=\"\">was ousted<\/a> by the rest of the company\u2019s nonprofit board on Friday, leading to a seemingly endless drama cycle that\u2019s included hundreds of staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-staffers-demand-altman-reinstated\" class=\"\">threatening to quit en masse<\/a> if the board doesn\u2019t reinstate him.<\/p>\n<p>A key character in the spectacle has been OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever \u2014 who, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2023\/11\/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos\/676050\/\" class=\"\">according to <em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company \u2014 and appears to have been one of the main drivers behind Altman\u2019s ousting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does it feel like everybody at OpenAI has lost their mind? In what\u2019s arguably turning into the hottest AI story of the year, former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the rest of the company\u2019s nonprofit board on Friday, leading to a seemingly endless drama cycle that\u2019s included hundreds of staffers threatening to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}