Since removing CEO Sam Altman last month, OpenAI has experienced a traumatic period. After almost every employee threatened to quit over Sam Altman’s removal, the artificial intelligence industry suffered five days of intense turmoil before OpenAI agreed to reinstate Altman as CEO and appoint new board members. Following a tumultuous period that exposed the profound conflicts within the artificial intelligence industry, Greg Brockman, the company’s president and co-founder, returned as well. According to a story in the magazine New York Times, in this context, a secret WhatsApp group including more than 100 CEOs from Silicon Valley has surfaced, including Dropbox’s Drew Houston and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
What was the conversation in the WhatsApp group chat?
It appears that very few people were aware of ChatGPT creator Sam Altman’s termination. The CEOs of some of the largest US technological businesses are listed, including Drew Houston of Dropbox and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook parent company Meta. The New York Times reported that on November 17, as word spread of Altman’s termination, a text message arrived in this private
Mr. Altman claims that iMessage stopped working when his phone started to overflow with text messages. “And my phone’s iMessage broke from the volume of messages I received in the next thirty minutes.” Notifications just kept rolling in and iMessage had this issue where it stopped working for a bit, making my phone completely useless. “I couldn’t even tell because this message was delivered late and everything was marked as read,” he remarked.
Mr. Altman did, however, see the bright side, saying that despite the “painful cost,” the entire experience had taught him a lot. “My reconfiguration of my values and the empathy I gained from the entire experience has definitely been a blessing in disguise,” he continued. Although it was quite expensive, I am happy that I went through it.
