Today on NOW and NEXT:

Ritesh Kotak, tech and cyber strategist joins the show to talk about the head spinning palace intrigue at OpenAI. In less than a week, Sam Altman went from being CEO, to out of work, to hired by Microsoft, to being re-hired by OpenAI and a whole new board being appointed to lead the company!

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Ritesh says the boardroom drama at OpenAI heightens the need for substantive action to ensure safe, trustworthy AI.

"If you start going too far ahead without having checks and balances in place, that causes problems. And I think that seems to be the big issue around this is, yes, AI is a new arms race, but what protection mechanisms and safeguards need to be put in place? Or are we putting the cart before the horse?"