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First, board members criticizing a company is very common, indeed, an entire career for some people (like Carl Icahn) and a useful role, especially in this case. If you think it's so outrageous, as so many OAers apparently do, better fetch the smelling salts the next time you crack open a WSJ...

Second, the 'criticism' here is laughably weak and is barely even a criticism at all (I actually read it as a criticism of everyone else but OA); I strongly encourage anyone who thinks that this might justify firing someone (especially without, apparently, a replacement who would be acceptable to the safety faction) to actually read the supposedly unforgivable page of the paper: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Decoding...



Wholly agreed — the paper is a pretty mild analysis of the ways different companies have signaled their trustworthiness, and was hardly a scathing critique of OpenAI (or unreserved praise of Anthropic). I found it pretty decent.


Third, she was on the board of a non-profit with different goals and duties to a company




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