Will she fire Sam Altman again? "Oh, sure," says an OpenAI board member who did.
Helen Toner was one of four OpenAI board members who voted to fire Altman in 2023. He returned as CEO, and she left the board.
Asked on the Border Breaker podcast if she would do it the same way again, Toner said: “Oh, sure. I mean, we went into it knowing it was going to suck. ".
Is Altman reliable? "I think my position on this is pretty clear," she said. And then the bigger point: "If our hopes for the future depend on a certain person being trustworthy, then we're pretty screwed. ".
Toner now directs the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology. The people building these systems say the safety issues must be resolved within 12 to 24 months. "I think it's scary and I hope they're wrong. ".