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[๐ง In Case You Missed It]OpenAIโs Five Days of Chaos: When Governance Broke Down AI
When the race for smarter AI clashed with the need for safer AI.

5์ผ ๋ง์ ๋๋ AI ๊ถ๋ ฅ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ: ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค๊ฐ AI๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ด๋ฆฐ ์คํAI ์ฟ ๋ฐํ ์ฌํ
๋ ๋๋ํ AI๋ฅผ ํฅํ ์ง์ฃผ๊ฐ, ๋ ์์ ํ AI๋ฅผ ํฅํ ์๊ตฌ์ ์ถฉ๋ํ์ ๋.
๐ 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 governanceโbetween speed, control, and public safety.
2023๋
11์, ์คํAI ์ด์ฌํ๋ CEO ์ ์ฌํธ๋จผ(Sam Altman)์ ์ ๊ฒฉ ํด์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ๋ "์ํต ๋จ์ "๊ณผ "์์ ์ฑ ์ฐ์ ์์ ์ดํ" ์ฐ๋ ค์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ ๋ด๋ถ ๋ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ด๋ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง์ ๋๋ค์๊ฐ ๋ณธ์ธ๋ค์ ํด์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ๊ณ , ํฌ์์๋ค์ ์ด์ฌํ๋ฅผ ์๋ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ก์ํํธ๋ ์ฌํธ๋จผ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์ ํ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์์
ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋์ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
5์ผ๊ฐ์ ํผ๋ ๋์ ์ฌํธ๋จผ์ ๋ณต๊ทํ์ง๋ง, ์ด ์ฌ๊ฑด์ AI ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค์์ "์๋-ํต์ -๊ณต๊ณต ์์ " ๊ฐ ๊น์ ๊ธด์ฅ์ ๋๋ฌ๋์ต๋๋ค.
*Microsoft invested $14billion in total for 2 rounds, currently the largest shareholder(49%, โ24.9)
*๋ง์ดํฌ๋ก์ํํธ๋ ์ด 140์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ 2๊ฐ ๋ผ์ด๋ ๋์ ํฌ์ํ๊ณ , 49% ์ง๋ถ์ ๋ค๊ณ ์๋ ์ต๋์ฃผ์ฃผ๊ฐ ๋์์
**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)
**๋ฐ๋์ ์ฃผ์ถ ์์ธ ์ผ๋ฒ๋ Safe Super Intelligence๋ผ๋ ์คํํธ์ ์ผ๋ก 10์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ํฌ์ ์ ์น์ ๋์ฌ('25.2)
๐งฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)
1. AI Governance (AI ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค)
Systems and structures that oversee AI development to align with ethical and societal goals.
โ AI ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ยท์ฌํ์ ๋ชฉํ์ ์ผ์น์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฐ๋
ํ๋ ์์คํ
๊ณผ ๊ตฌ์กฐ.
2. Alignment Problem (์ ๋ ฌ ๋ฌธ์ )
The difficulty of ensuring that powerful AI systems pursue goals beneficial to humans.
โ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ AI๊ฐ ์ธ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ์ด๋ก์ด ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋๋ก ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฌธ์ .
3. Safety vs. Speed Dilemma (์์ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์๋์ ๋๋ ๋ง)
The conflict between careful AI development and the pressure to innovate rapidly.
โ ์ ์คํ AI ๊ฐ๋ฐ๊ณผ ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ์ ์๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ ์ถฉ๋.
4. Stakeholder Revolt (์ดํด๊ด๊ณ์ ๋ฐ๋)
When employees, investors, or partners revolt against leadership decisions.
โ ์ง์, ํฌ์์, ํํธ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์์ง์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฐํ๋ ์ํฉ.
5. Structural Weakness (๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ฝ์ )
Underlying vulnerabilities in an organization's decision-making processes.
โ ์กฐ์ง์ ์์ฌ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๋ด์ฌ๋ ์ทจ์ฝ์ฑ.
๐ง In Focus
OpenAIโs 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 wasnโt just about Altmanโit was about who gets to control the future of intelligence.
Without strong governance structures, even a leading AI lab can be destabilized overnight.
์คํAI ๋ถ๊ดด ์๊ธฐ๋ ์ต์ฒจ๋จ AI ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ชจ์์ ๋๋ฌ๋์ต๋๋ค: ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ํด ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์์ง์ด๋, ์ธ๋ฅ ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ ์คํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ์๋ฉด์ฑ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์์.
๋ด๋ถ ๊ถ๋ ฅ ํฌ์์ ๋จ์ํ ์ฌํธ๋จผ ๊ฐ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ, "์ง๋ฅ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋๊ฐ ํต์ ํ๋๊ฐ"๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ์ผ ์ธ์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
ํํํ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค ๊ตฌ์กฐ ์์ด, ์์ฅ์ ์ ๋ํ๋ AI ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์กฐ์ฐจ ํ๋ฃจ์์นจ์ ๋ฌด๋์ง ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ฃ How They Talk About It
๐ boardroom coup
"There was no warningโthis was a classic boardroom coup at OpenAI."
"์๊ณ ์์ด ๋ฒ์ด์ง, ์ ํ์ ์ธ ์ด์ฌํ ์ฟ ๋ฐํ์๋ค."
๐ breakdown in trust
"Once thereโs a breakdown in trust, even the most ambitious missions falter."
"์ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋์ง๋ฉด, ์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์๋ํ ๋ฏธ์
๋ ํ๋ค๋ฆฐ๋ค."
๐ existential risk
"OpenAI was created to manage existential risk, not to become one."
"์คํAI๋ ์กด์ฌ์ ์ํ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ก์ง, ์ค์ค๋ก ์ํ์ด ๋๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ๊ฒ ์๋๋ค."
๐ move fast and break things
"OpenAI tried to balance โmove fast and break thingsโ with protecting humanityโthen it broke itself."
"์คํAI๋ '๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์์ง์ด๊ณ , ํ๊ดดํ๋ผ'๋ ๋ชจํ ์ ์ธ๋ฅ ๋ณดํธ ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ท ํ์ ์ก์ผ๋ ค ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ฌด๋์ก๋ค."
๐ power vacuum
"For five days, there was a power vacuum at the heart of one of the worldโs most influential AI labs."
"5์ผ ๋์, ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ ์๋ AI ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์ค ํ๋์ ์ค์ฌ์ ๊ถ๋ ฅ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ ์ํ์๋ค."
๐งญ Discourse Watch
๐บ๐ธ United States
The U.S. media largely framed OpenAIโs crisis as a governance breakdown, sparking debates on founder power, board oversight, and balancing speed with safety.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ธ๋ก ์ ์คํAI ์ฌํ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค ๋ถ๊ดด๋ก ๊ท์ ํ๊ณ , ์ฐฝ์
์ ๊ถํ, ์ด์ฌํ ๊ฐ๋
, ์๋์ ์์ ์ฑ ๊ฐ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ํ ๋
ผ์์ ์ด๋ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
๐ฐ๐ท 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.
ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์คํAI ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ธํ๊ฒ ๋์ํนํ๋์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, AI ์์ ์ฑ ๊ธฐ์ค๊ณผ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ๋
๊ฐํ ํ์์ฑ์ ๋ํ ๋
ผ์๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ฌ Outro
When intelligence itself becomes a battleground, governance isn't optionalโitโs survival.
์ง๋ฅ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์ ์ํฐ๊ฐ ๋ ๋, ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค๋ ์ ํ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์์กด์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ๋ณํฉ๋๋ค.
๐
November 30, 2022 โ ChatGPT launched publicly
ChatGPTโs release accelerated the public conversation around AIโs promises and risks, setting the stage for governance crises like OpenAIโs 2023 turmoil.
๐
2022๋
11์ 30์ผ โ ChatGPT ๊ณต์ ์ถ์
ChatGPT์ ๋ฑ์ฅ์ผ๋ก AI์ ์ฝ์๊ณผ ์ํ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ๋์ค์ ๋
ผ์๊ฐ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ ํ์ฐ๋์๊ณ , ์คํAI 2023๋
์ฌํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ์ธํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
๐งพ Sources
"Inside OpenAI's Five Days of Chaos" (The New York Times, 2023)
"The Governance Crisis at OpenAI" (The Verge, 2023)
"Microsoftโs Role in the OpenAI Saga" (WSJ, 2023)
"AI Safety Standards: Global Push Grows" (Bloomberg, 2023)