The OpenAI board crisis proves corporate AI is fragile
"Akash: The Crypto-Powered Decentralized Supercloud" (The Edge Podcast)
“There was a board takeover. Five people that nobody heard of before were able to control the most powerful AI in the world. Think about the implications of that… imagine if they had access to AGI… There is inherent fragility in these old systems that need to be changed and the only way to do so is through open source. Closed systems can go fast, open systems can go far.” — 00:35:57
Context: The November 2023 OpenAI board episode used as the case for public utilities being publicly owned; the “go fast / go far” aphorism closes the [00:36:38] block.