Altman flags safety team's concerns about the ICO

From:: Sam Altman
Date:: January 21, 2018
To:: Elon Musk; cc Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis
Subject:: ICO

Elon— Heads up, spoke to some of the safety team and there were a lot of concerns about the ICO and possible unintended effects in the future. Planning to talk to the whole team tomorrow and invite input. Going to emphasize the need to keep this confidential, but I think it's really important we get buy-in and give people the chance to weigh in early. Sam

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Altman warns Musk that members of the safety team have many concerns about the proposed initial coin offering and that he plans to brief the whole team and invite input while stressing confidentiality.

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OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: ico, fundraising, safety-team, confidentiality, musk-v-openai

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