From the Atlantic piece about the OpenAI meltdown:
The more confident Sutskever grew about the power of OpenAI’s technology, the more he also allied himself with the existential-risk faction within the company. For a leadership offsite this year, according to two people familiar with the event, Sutskever commissioned a wooden effigy from a local artist that was intended to represent an “unaligned” AI—that is, one that does not meet a human’s objectives. He set it on fire to symbolize OpenAI’s commitment to its founding principles.
I NEED an interview with the local wood carver who got commissioned to make the unaligned AGI wicker man. I NEED this right now. Someone hunt down this guy and talk to him please.
Full piece here (web archive link), but it's overall not that interesting outside these details.
