Sam Altman's New Order Doesn't Include OpenAI's Chief Scientist

It's extremely poor form to air your dirty laundry and there is so much of it coming out of this org. If I was an investor, I would demand that the pipeline be shut until the org shown enough stability where people can have confidence in them. This has to be a terrible distraction to the general employees.

let's try to translate Sam Altman's horrendously tactful statement?

"“I love and respect Ilya, I think he’s a guiding light of the field and a gem of a human being,” said Sam Altman in a press release. “I harbor zero ill will towards him. While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI.”"

My attempt would be this: "Ilia, more than anyone, built this company, but now that he betrayed my cult of personality, we have to figure out how to dispose of him without any of us losing too much face"

Being called “a gem of a human being” by someone like Altman would be an insult to anyone. If it wasn’t just that one more flat out lie, spoken with zero conscience, that it is.

When you strike at the king, you must kill him.