The real problem, in my view, is that the board's stated mission is simply impossible. The amount of potential profit precludes ever "burning it all down" regardless of how unsafe it may be or how earnest the board is. The Big Boys would never let that sort of money escape them.

Assuming AGI is possible at all, this is why something like OpenAI should never have even been started if the concern was anything like ensuring safety or even being a net benefit to the world.

Fortunately, I think AGI isn't possible (at least not within a short enough timeline to matter). But I do think there's been nothing but recklessness in terms of what has already been accomplished. In the short term, uninvolved others are inevitably going to suffer. I have a problem with any group of people deciding that others are expendable.