Last Friday shocking news broke about Sam Altman being forced out of his role as CEO of OpenAI. Previously, there had not been any chatter or discussion about a change coming and Sam Altman had been part of the company since its beginnings are funny enough a non-profit. What makes this even weirder is that the next reasoning was pretty vague with the company commenting that "the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI". Since there have not been any scandals or investigations launched into OpenAI recently the wording and timing seems pretty odd and leaves us with more questions than answers. 

Without any clear guidance into what would lead the board to think that they could not be confident in OpenAI, I took a step back and looked at everything as a whole that he is involved with or has a noticeable stake in. Worldcoin naturally jumped off the page to me as the project has brought nothing but bad attention to Sam Altman and by association OpenAI. I have for months made the comment to friends, coworkers, and others that the sheer data that Sam Altman was accumulating reminded me of a comic book supervillain. He had the data, biometrics, and is a huge stakeholder in fusion industry-leading Helion. 

Now I wrote those first two paragraphs hours after the news broke and over the weekend we have had a whole slew of back-and-forth news with it seeming that Sam Altman was coming back, to joining Microsoft, to now him possibly returning to OpenAI. What this has made clear though is whoever lead the coup at OpenAI failed to take into consideration the loyalty that people at OpenAI have for their CEO. Last I had seen of the 707 employees almost 700 had signed the open letter to the board demanding them to resign and to reinstate Sam Altman. I have no idea how this will play out since they have already hired a new CEO and that in itself causes issues but with what I am reading it goes to show how bad centralization of tech and really anything can go. 

Without the rebellion by the employees, a $90 billion startup that is the industry leader in AI would have come under the ironclad grasp of a select few aka The Board. This is serving as a great reality check for not only this board but boards around the US without the need for investigations or governmental oversight. Personally, that seems to be the worst-case scenario so hopefully, OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft can find some way out of this mess that is currently taking a ton of news attention. 

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