Uncapped with Jack Altman
· Bret Taylor
[00:00:00] S1: The process of writing is a process of clarifying your thoughts. For Clay and me, this is a process by which we synthesize what’s been happening. You know it and talk about it, but to actually write it and write it eloquently and concisely is incredibly important because it’s essentially a way of… What’s that famous line? “If I had more time, I would’ve written a shorter letter.” Spend the time, because that’s actually how you can show respect to your stakeholders, that you’re thinking about the strategic issues going on in your business. The last thing I’d say is that board members aren’t single-issue voters, but everyone has their strengths. At OpenAI we’ve recruited a pretty diverse set of skills. Zico Kolter is a professor at CMU and specializes in, among other things, jailbreaking. He’s one of the experts on some of the more subtle safety aspects. Nicole Seligman was a great attorney and she’s an expert in a lot of legal issues. What’s really nice is that when you grow out a board beyond your initial investors, find people that your management team will want to go to for advice. Obviously the audit committee chair and your CFO have a really unique relationship. Who’s your head of sales going to go talk to? Do you have someone who’s been there, done that? Because you want them to have that kind of relationship. I always think of it as, who are the advisors you want to surround your management team with? A functional board really has those relationships. Then when you’re in a board discussion, you have all these board members who have had lots of engagement with the company, but in a really valuable, targeted way. I like to think of the board as a collection of people. Don’t look at the individuals. The whole should be greater than the sum of its parts.
· Jack Altman, Bret Taylor
[00:00:00] S0: That’s awesome. Anything this year you’re particularly excited about that you can share? [00:00:00] S1: The real exciting part is going to be adoption in regulated industries. We are moving beyond the early adopters to everyone. If we talk a year from now— [00:00:00] S0: You’re going to be doing the hard stuff. [00:00:00] S1: It’s going to be the really hard stuff. [00:00:00] S0: That’s awesome. [00:00:00] S1: If you want a hot take, my intuition is that regulators will start asking for agents. The idea that you have a human set of controls over a regulated process will start to feel like a risk, rather than the risk being AI. I don’t know if that will happen this year, but I think that will happen. [00:00:00] S0: Alright, I’ll call you in a year and we’ll do take two of this and see. [00:00:00] S1: That sounds great. [00:00:00] S0: Thanks so much for doing this, Bret. This was great. [00:00:00] S1: Thanks for having me.