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Ask HN: What are the chances Sam Altman relied on AI to come back as CEO?

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Just a thought exploration. In know it has conspiracy vibes, but the question is objective. >50%? How much?:)

Unless he has access to some top secret AI (which he wouldn't after being fired), I'd say not.

Yeah I mean why would the just-was-CEO of OpenAI have access to secret AI.

He got fired so he wouldn't unless he was capable of stealing a data centre on his way out or had some kind of inside connection to bypass security.

Not sure why we're discussing this like it's serious, but people work from home these days and can connect to work via VPN from anywhere. And given the chaos, assuming all digital accounts/permissions were immediately shut down is a big question mark. Especially when everyone at OpenAI was on his side.

His accounts would have been shut down the moment he was fired, that is always the case everywhere. There was no chaos when he was fired. There was chaos after he was fired.

I've noticed something about reality. You know what makes sense in reality. You know the procedures, the logic, the rules. You expect the world to evolve according to them. But it rarely does. Case in point this entire episode of firing and rehiring Altman in the span of less than a week.

There are those things that happen in life, if a writer puts it in a screenplay, you'd think "what a bad writer". And yet...

Even if they didn't revoke his access, he'd be smart enough not to access their systems and leave audit logs, thus leaving a window open to be sued/prosecuted for exfiltrating trade secrets and proprietary IP (even if he didn't do so). That being said, knowing where the bodies are buried and having insider knowledge of IP are powerful motivators for retention

You can literally wake up your laptop from sleep and it restores the connection by logging you into the last session with the same auth. Not that easy to get sued for something as basic as that.

Even GPT-4 surpasses the emotional and management intelligence of the average person. And in stressful moments even the better people perform average or below. So of course it’s helpful to use it.

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