Sam Altman made comments on X to members of the e/acc community that it was a real shame that he couldn’t reveal his secret account, because it would blow their minds. He also made comments like, “you can’t outaccelerate me”.

The most powerful person on the board is Ilya Sutskever. If he saw Sam making those comments on Twitter, maybe that’s what lead them to kick Sam off the board? Maybe they were worried that they couldn’t trust someone who had a secret presence and role in urging the e/acc community toward unsafe AI acceleration?

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Note: I will resolve this as “yes” if any official news comes out that Sam’s participation in the acceleration movement was part of why he was fired by the board (as opposed to their current stance, which is just that he wasn’t being candid)