In this early episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss generative AI business continuity, the recent drama at OpenAI and what it means for businesses relying on their AI services. We talk about the importance of having backup plans and avoiding putting all your eggs in one basket when it comes to new, unproven technologies. We give tips for building business continuity plans for AI tools, emphasizing focusing on your core processes first before getting distracted by specific tools. We also discuss the pros and cons of some alternative generative AI options beyond the main players.

Normally, the show publishes on Wednesdays, but because of the Thanksgiving holiday and the timeliness of the news, it’s in your ears two days early this week.

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In this week’s In-Ear Insights, this is going to be sort of a top of the news attention piece today.

Over this past weekend, and this is being recorded in late November 2023, OpenAI.

Their board essentially staged a coup and ousted the CEO Sam Altman, and then appointed the CTO, Marathi as the interim CEO, which then had Greg Brockman, who was the chairman of the board, and also a member of the executive staff also quit the next day.

The fit the feedback from their largest investor, Microsoft and the Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella.

They’ve given OpenAI $10 billion in funding and I’ve owned 49% of the company said, Guys, what are you doing? And there was a round of negotiations that fell through.

And so what has happened as of Monday morning after this, this insanity is that the board had instead of stepping down, which is what their largest investor was telling them to do.

The board has appointed the twitches, CEO as the CEO of that of OpenAI.

Sam and Greg took an offer from Satya Nadella and are now heading up a new division at Microsoft advanced AI research.

And it appears that anywhere from a third to a half of OpenAI, senior staff are going with them.

So you have this massive brain drain, that the the future of OpenAI itself is very unclear.

So that brings me, you know, that’s the sort of the topical news that brings me to the topic I want to talk to you about Katie, which is scenario planning and disaster planning are not just for natural disasters.

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