Toner comes across here as an ivory tower academic naïve to the real world. The OpenAi board’s biggest failing in the recent drama was imagining that they had more control than they did, e.g. that they could fire Altman less than a month after his representing the company at an international AI summit with multiple heads of state and the OpenAI DevDay, and that he’d somehow just fade away and the rest of the company staff would meekly follow a radical change in direction.