- Sam does not have equity in OpenAI. Does this mean he can potentially be removed at any point in time?
- OpenAI's profit arm will funnel excess profit to its non-profit wing. If this is the case, who determines excess profit?
- OpenAI's founding charter commits the company to abandoning research efforts if another project nears AGI development. If this happens, what happens to the profit arm?
There's also nothing preventing Microsoft from gifting him billions in Microsoft stock so they can claim he's not motivated by profit with OpenAI despite indirectly making money off it.
You'd have to be extremely naïve to look at the decisions he's made at OpenAI and think it was all purely out of good will. Google and AWS both offer credits for academic and charity projects, why did Altman choose to go all in with Microsoft if it wasn't for money?
It's just this one non-important detail is now being repeated over and over.
How would this even work? If only I got a dollar for someone suggesting that there are Magic ways to avoid tax…”they just write it off!”
You’re doing the “only the true messiah would deny his divinity” argument — if he was going to profit, that’s bad. If he’s not going to profit, obviously he’s lying and is going to profit, so that’s bad.
IMO arguments are only meaningful if they can be falsified. Your argument can’t be falsified because you’re using a lack of evidence as proof.
And if he does have control that has value whether you label it equity or not.
It is possible he literally has no control and no financial upside but who would turn down control over what they believed to be a world shaping technology?
I think the definition of AGI is sufficiently vague that this will never happen. And if it did happen, abandoning research efforts could take the form of selling the for-profit arm to Microsoft.