Altman to Musk: $100MM commitment and specific asks
- From:
- Sam Altman
- Date:
- October 18, 2015 (Header as published: Oct 18, 2015, 11:36 AM)
- To:
- Elon Musk
- Subject:
- followup
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Good seeing you a couple of weeks ago. As discussed I think starting with a $100MM commitment (and leaving the time unspecified) is the way to go. Everyone we discussed but Gates is committed to donating. Hope to have him locked down next week. I am going to sit down with Zuck, but I still think it's probably too problematic given Facebook Al Research. Two big new recruits that we expect to sign offer letters this week: John Schulman and Wojciech Zaremba. Specific asks for you: 1) Can you donate $30MM over the next 5 years? 2) Can we call you an "advisor" but leave unspecified what you'll do in detail and figure it out as we go? 3) Will you be on the Safety Board with me? I'd like it to eventually be 5 of us, adding the next 3 over the year or so. This will be the "second key" for releasing anything that could be dangerous.