Former board members of OpenAI, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, have expressed their concerns about the lack of stringent regulation in the AI industry, suggesting that self-governance is not sufficient in the face of profit-driven pressures.
What Happened: McCauley and Toner, who became part of OpenAI’s board in 2018 and 2021 respectively, initially supported the company’s self-governance model. However, they now argue that this approach is not robust enough to resist the lure of profit incentives, in a new opinion piece in The Economist.
The former board members pointed to the dismissal of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, last November, attributing it to persistent patterns of behavior that they believe compromised the board’s supervision of critical ...