The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOs

Summary

Helen Toner, executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, discusses AI safety in a Decoder interview with Nilay Patel. Toner was one of four OpenAI board members who voted to fire Sam Altman, an episode the source calls "the blip." The source argues that the board's accountability mechanism broke when it tried to act, and that a voluntary White House accord relies partly on that same kind of board accountability.

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