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[๐ŸงŠ In Case You Missed It]OpenAIโ€™s Five Days of Chaos: When Governance Broke Down AI

When the race for smarter AI clashed with the need for safer AI.

5์ผ ๋งŒ์— ๋๋‚œ AI ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ: ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค๊ฐ€ AI๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์˜คํ”ˆAI ์ฟ ๋ฐํƒ€ ์‚ฌํƒœ
๋” ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•œ AI๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์งˆ์ฃผ๊ฐ€, ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ AI๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์š”๊ตฌ์™€ ์ถฉ๋Œํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ.

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

In November 2023, OpenAI's board abruptly fired CEO Sam Altman, citing concerns about "communications breakdowns" and "safety priorities."
The firing triggered a rapid internal revolt: nearly all employees threatened to quit, investors pressured the board, and Microsoft offered to hire Altman and his team.
After five chaotic days, Altman was reinstated. But the episode exposed deep tensions in AI governanceโ€”between speed, control, and public safety.

2023๋…„ 11์›”, ์˜คํ”ˆAI ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” CEO ์ƒ˜ ์˜ฌํŠธ๋จผ(Sam Altman)์„ ์ „๊ฒฉ ํ•ด์ž„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์œ ๋Š” "์†Œํ†ต ๋‹จ์ ˆ"๊ณผ "์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์ดํƒˆ" ์šฐ๋ ค์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์ฆ‰๊ฐ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์› ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ํ‡ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ์••๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ๋Š” ์˜ฌํŠธ๋จผ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ํŒ€ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ์˜์ž…ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
5์ผ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ˜ผ๋ž€ ๋์— ์˜ฌํŠธ๋จผ์€ ๋ณต๊ท€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ AI ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค์—์„œ "์†๋„-ํ†ต์ œ-๊ณต๊ณต ์•ˆ์ „" ๊ฐ„ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

*Microsoft invested $14billion in total for 2 rounds, currently the largest shareholder(49%, โ€˜24.9)

*๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ๋Š” ์ด 140์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ 2๊ฐœ ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ๋™์•ˆ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ๊ณ , 49% ์ง€๋ถ„์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ๋Œ€์ฃผ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ

**Known-to-be the head of revolt, Sutskever started to pitch for his new start-up SSI(Safe Super Intelligence) with a new investment round of $10billion('25.2)

**๋ฐ˜๋ž€์˜ ์ฃผ์ถ• ์ˆ˜์ธ ์ผ€๋ฒ„๋Š” Safe Super Intelligence๋ผ๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์œผ๋กœ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํˆฌ์ž ์œ ์น˜์— ๋‚˜์„ฌ('25.2)

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

1. AI Governance (AI ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค)
Systems and structures that oversee AI development to align with ethical and societal goals.
โ†’ AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์œค๋ฆฌ์ ยท์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ์ผ์น˜์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ์กฐ.

2. Alignment Problem (์ •๋ ฌ ๋ฌธ์ œ)
The difficulty of ensuring that powerful AI systems pursue goals beneficial to humans.
โ†’ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ AI๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋กœ์šด ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ.

3. Safety vs. Speed Dilemma (์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ๊ณผ ์†๋„์˜ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ)
The conflict between careful AI development and the pressure to innovate rapidly.
โ†’ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ˜์‹  ์••๋ ฅ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถฉ๋Œ.

4. Stakeholder Revolt (์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž ๋ฐ˜๋ž€)
When employees, investors, or partners revolt against leadership decisions.
โ†’ ์ง์›, ํˆฌ์ž์ž, ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ.

5. Structural Weakness (๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์•ฝ์ )
Underlying vulnerabilities in an organization's decision-making processes.
โ†’ ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ • ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ๋‚ด์žฌ๋œ ์ทจ์•ฝ์„ฑ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

OpenAIโ€™s near-collapse revealed the paradox of building frontier AI technology:
To move fast enough to compete, but cautiously enough to protect humanity.
The internal power struggle wasnโ€™t just about Altmanโ€”it was about who gets to control the future of intelligence.
Without strong governance structures, even a leading AI lab can be destabilized overnight.

์˜คํ”ˆAI ๋ถ•๊ดด ์œ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์˜ ๋ชจ์ˆœ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ด๋˜, ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์–‘๋ฉด์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ์š”.
๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์˜ฌํŠธ๋จผ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, "์ง€๋Šฅ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€"๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์‹ธ์›€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ๊ตฌ์กฐ ์—†์ด, ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์„ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” AI ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์•„์นจ์— ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ boardroom coup
"There was no warningโ€”this was a classic boardroom coup at OpenAI."
"์˜ˆ๊ณ  ์—†์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง„, ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์ฟ ๋ฐํƒ€์˜€๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ breakdown in trust
"Once thereโ€™s a breakdown in trust, even the most ambitious missions falter."
"์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฉด, ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์…˜๋„ ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ existential risk
"OpenAI was created to manage existential risk, not to become one."
"์˜คํ”ˆAI๋Š” ์กด์žฌ์  ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์ง€, ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ move fast and break things
"OpenAI tried to balance โ€˜move fast and break thingsโ€™ with protecting humanityโ€”then it broke itself."
"์˜คํ”ˆAI๋Š” '๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ , ํŒŒ๊ดดํ•˜๋ผ'๋Š” ๋ชจํ† ์™€ ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์žก์œผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์กŒ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ power vacuum
"For five days, there was a power vacuum at the heart of one of the worldโ€™s most influential AI labs."
"5์ผ ๋™์•ˆ, ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” AI ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์€ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
The U.S. media largely framed OpenAIโ€™s crisis as a governance breakdown, sparking debates on founder power, board oversight, and balancing speed with safety.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ ์˜คํ”ˆAI ์‚ฌํƒœ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ๋ถ•๊ดด๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ฐฝ์—…์ž ๊ถŒํ•œ, ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ฐ๋…, ์†๋„์™€ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ๊ฐ„ ๊ท ํ˜•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea
In Korea, the OpenAI turmoil prompted renewed calls for stricter AI safety guidelines and ethical oversight, even though direct and detailed coverage was limited.
ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜คํ”ˆAI ์‚ฌํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ž์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์„œํŠนํ•„๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, AI ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฐ๋… ๊ฐ•ํ™” ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ถ€๊ฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When intelligence itself becomes a battleground, governance isn't optionalโ€”itโ€™s survival.

์ง€๋Šฅ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ „์Ÿํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ, ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒ์กด์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… November 30, 2022 โ€“ ChatGPT launched publicly
ChatGPTโ€™s release accelerated the public conversation around AIโ€™s promises and risks, setting the stage for governance crises like OpenAIโ€™s 2023 turmoil.

๐Ÿ“… 2022๋…„ 11์›” 30์ผ โ€“ ChatGPT ๊ณต์‹ ์ถœ์‹œ
ChatGPT์˜ ๋“ฑ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ AI์˜ ์•ฝ์†๊ณผ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ค‘์  ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์˜คํ”ˆAI 2023๋…„ ์‚ฌํƒœ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  1. "Inside OpenAI's Five Days of Chaos" (The New York Times, 2023)

  2. "The Governance Crisis at OpenAI" (The Verge, 2023)

  3. "Microsoftโ€™s Role in the OpenAI Saga" (WSJ, 2023)

  4. "AI Safety Standards: Global Push Grows" (Bloomberg, 2023)

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