OpenAI As We Knew It Is Dead, Now It’s A Loose Cannon In The Hands Of A Megalomaniac Technocrat
Sam Altman is a Technocrat who plays the long game. When he first got involved with OpenAI in 2015, he jockeyed to take the helm in 2019 but he was constrained by a board of directors. By 2023, the Board saw through him and ousted him. Then the real Sam Altman appeared as he "clawed his way back to power", kicked the directors off the board and reconstituted another board subservient to him.
