Gambling that no one reads academics papers by fringe Open AI board members no one has heard of before is probably a safe bet but it's still a risk if some doomer AI people on Twitter pumped it up, some journo discovered the tweets and sells it as "concern in the industry including one of OpenAI's own board" and it got swept up in some lawyer-style grilling by Congress which Sam just had to go through.

Who cares if the paper was covered in the media or not? Think tanks write policy papers for regulators, not HN. And it's the regulators that Sam was worried about. From the article:

> Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company, particularly at a time, he added, when the Federal Trade Commission was investigating OpenAI over the data used to build its technology.