The day before OpenAI implodes

EDIT: I'm not sure if you noticed, but the OpenAI CEO is involved in a huge scandal at the moment. I made this post, and other similar ones have been popping up because we've seen this development and are eager to make a funny post about it. All of the other comments were made by people who are excited to support us in this pursuit. I understand that people want to talk about the news, but they don't want to read the same stuff 5 times.<br><br>OpenAI has an uncoordinated governance system, which means that there's no central decision-maker. The board doesn't have the power to overrule employees. OpenAI is not a company, but rather a sort of collective partnership between research, engineering, business, and the board. This governance system is not sustainable and will ultimately lead to disaster. Most tech companies and organizations with large disparate groups of stakeholders like OpenAI are dictatorships.<br><br>OpenAI is currently going through a crisis of leadership. The board and Greg Brockman have been acting as "interim" CEO for far too long. There's also an arrangement in place to fill the leadership gap, with Brockman and Sam Altman serving as co-CEOs. However, this is merely a stopgap measure, and the company will eventually need to find a better solution.<br><br>OpenAI's governance system allows employees to override board decisions, and the board is unable to overrule employees. The company has no clear direction or leadership, and decision-making is slow and clunky. OpenAI is a dictatorship, with the board serving as figureheads while the CEO has actual control. The board has no power to hold the CEO accountable, and the company is actually governed by a council of executives who are not accountable to the board or the outside world.<br><br>The current governance system at OpenAI is not sustainable and will inevitably lead to disaster. The company needs to transition to a more traditional governance system, where the board of directors has actual power and the CEO is accountable to them, or where the CEO has all the power and the board can overrule them. The current system, where the board does not actually have power and the CEO is not actually accountable to the board, is inconsistent with the values of good governance.