The speaker expected that his decision to challenge OpenAI’s departure agreement would receive limited news coverage and praise from some AI safety advocates, rather than a major public uproar.

“like i didn't actually expect that like all the journalists would take my side and all the like i i think i think what i expected was that like there'd be like a little news story at some point and like a bunch of ai safety people would be like ah you know open ai is evil and like good for you daniel for standing up to them but i didn't expect there to be this like huge uproar and i didn't expect like the employees of the company to like really come out and support and like make them change their policies um”