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What the OpenAI Saga Tells Us About How to Lead and Manage Organizations

Whatever happened seems to boil down to one of two theories: money or ethics.

Sam Altman

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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“Drucker would have been critical about the confusion between for-profit goals and the nonprofit mission as we see it at OpenAI,” Straub said. “Drucker wouldn’t reject the development or the use of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)...He would support its usefulness as long as humans stay in charge.”

The precise definition of AGI remains a topic of debate but is considered to be some version of AI that surpasses human's intellectual abilities.