09-03-2019 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com

Did Sam Altman make YC better or worse?

Y Combinator revealed yesterday that its president, Sam Altman, is stepping down from his role to become the accelerator program’s chairman. This change, said YC, will allow Altman to “spend more time focusing on OpenAI,” the San Francisco-based nonprofit that was cofounded by Altman and Elon Musk three years ago to get ahead of the risks posed by artificial intelligence,
The timing may not be so coincidental. Two weeks ago, Musk separated from OpenAI, whose operations Musk and
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