Sam intended to start a new company before he left

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Fundamental disagreement about OpenAI's safety approach

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Fundraising for OpenAI's next set of commercial products when the safety team repeatedly asked him not to

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Interpersonal squabbles not related to AI safety

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Told one too many little fibs/frequently dishonest about minor decisions/pathological liar

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The reasons given by the Former OpenAI Employees letter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570)

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Disagreement around filling board vacancies

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Sam was "extremely good at becoming powerful", too often getting his way in various conflicts with the board. Past board members and employees who opposed him, on a variety of issues, were forced out. They wanted a less powerful CEO.

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Sam tried to compromise the independence of the independent board members by sending an email to staff “reprimanding” Helen Toner https://archive.ph/snLmn

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Sam was more interested in creating products and development speed, others were more interested in nonprofit mission and safety

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Withholding Specific AI Project Developments or Outcomes from the Board

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This is a derivative market of the main market on this subject: 

This market is meant to inform trading on that market by providing a gauge of public opinion. 

This market will close on December 16th, and I will then create a separate Manifold Poll for each option, asking if it was a "significant factor" in Sam Altman's firing. The polls will run for several days to allow everyone time to respond to them. 

The answers in this market will resolve based on the polling results, unless I believe that a poll has been manipulated by people who are obviously voting dishonestly. If this occurs, I may resolve an option by creating a private poll that only moderators can answer. 

All polls will have a "see results" option so that users are not forced to vote in a poll if they are unsure how to vote but still want to see the full results.

All answers here are taken from the main market. If you want to submit additional answers, they must also be submissions on the main market. I also ask that you not submit any answers which are extremely low % on the main market, so that we can keep this market easier to navigate. I will N/A any submissions that I view as low-quality even if they were not N/A-ed in the original market.

I have also tried to not include too many duplicate options, though there can be reasonable disagreement about what counts as a duplicate. I may N/A answers that I think are too similiar to other answers, such that the polling on them would likely be identical. For example, I don't think we need two answers about fundamental disagreements about OpenAI's safety approach.

These resolution rules should be considered to be in "Draft Form" upon creation, and I am open to modifying them while remaining within the spirit of the question. 