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Scott Alexander says OpenAI required Daniel Kokotajlo to sign a non-disparagement agreement when he quit, threatening to claw back his stock options, and that Kokotajlo refused.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“Having, when he quit OpenAI,”
“they told him he had to sign a non-disparagement agreement where they would claw back his stock options and he refused,”Play from 3:52Report a misattribution
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