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I'm probably reading too much into it, but interesting that he specifically called out maximizing safety.
"Safety" has been the pretext for Altman's lobbying for regulatory barriers to new entrants in the field, protecting incumbents. OpenAI's nonprofit charter is the perfect PR pretext for what amounts to industry lobbying to protect a narrow set of early leaders and obstruct any other competition, and Altman was the man executing that mission, which is why OpenAI led by Sam was a valuable asset for Microsoft to preserve.
Sam does believe in safety. He also knows that there is a first-mover advantage when it comes to setting societal expectations and that you can’t build safe AI by not building AI.
That’s just a buzzword of the week devoid of any real meaning. If he would have written this years ago, it would’ve been “leveraging synergies”.
Shear is a genuine member of the AI safety rationalism cult, to the point he's an Aella reply guy and probably goes to her orgies.

(It's a Berkeley cult so of course it's got those.)

He’s trying very very hard to claim some credit in this. Probably had none.
https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557

He was instrumental; threatened resignation unless the old board could provide evidence of wrongdoing

...this doesn't seem instrumental?
Good thing you had a question mark there.

Because the answer is: Yes, it seems utterly instrumental.

cool. it was
Are you basing that on any information?
I wonder what he gets out of this. Ceo for a few days? Do they pay him for 3 days of work? Presumably you'd want some minimum signing bonus in your contract as a Ceo?
https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557

The reputation boost is probably worth a lot more than the direct financial compensation he's getting.

he’ll put CEO of OAI on his resume
I wouldn't. Everybody knows it's three days, not much to brag about.
More than I'll probably ever have to brag about during my tenure in the workforce, lol
He 100% had a golden parachute in case this scenario came up and will be paid out. Executives have lawyers to make sure of this.