On: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

[alephnerd]

A significant portion of the old guard at OpenAI was part of the Effective Altruism, AI Alignment, and Open Philanthropy movement.

Most hiring in the foundational AI/model space is very nepotistic and biased towards people in that clique.

Also, Elon Musk used to be the primary patron for OpenAI before losing interest during the AI Winter in the late 2010s.

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Which has zero explanatory power w.r.t. Murati, since she's not part of that crowd at all. But her previously working at an Elon company seems like a plausible route, if she did in fact join before he left OpenAI (since he left in Feb 2018).