# Emmett Shear

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Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI

The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress. Further reading: Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT? Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI OpenAI’s…

Emmett Shear – SF, Power, AI Alignment, Meditation, Softmax

I interview Emmett Shear. 00:00:00 – The learning systems view of social media 00:15:00 – Heuristics for robust Twitter usage (block big accounts) 00:22:13 – San Francisco as a gold rush city 00:32:34 – Power, SF’s shadow 00:37:21 – Power as it relates to AI safety 00:39:37 – On learning systems 0…

AGI, Alignment, and the Future of AI Power With Emmett Shear

Emmett Shear is the founder and CEO of Softmax, an alignment research company, and previously co-founded and led Twitch as CEO. He was also a Y Combinator partner and briefly served as interim CEO of OpenAI. What you'll learn: Why AI alignment and AGI are fundamentally the same problem How theory …

Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show

Emmett Shear and Séb Krier debate whether today’s AI alignment paradigm—focused on control and instruction-following—is fundamentally flawed. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified …

Why Leadership Is About Repetition, Not Charisma | Emmett Shear

Why Leadership Is About Repetition, Not Charisma | Emmett Shear Former Twitch founder and interim OpenAI CEO ⁠Emmett Shear⁠, now Co-founder of Softmax, joins for a deep conversation on leadership, AI, and what it really takes to build meaningful, long-lasting companies. Recorded at Istanbul Slush…

Emmett Shear - Explaining AI to the Humanities

This week on The Hope Axis, I’m joined by Emmett Shear to talk about AI, hope, and how we should actually think about the future. Emmett is the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI, and now the co-founder and CEO of Softmax. We discuss why AI inspires so much fear, what…

562: Do You Have a Dragon?

Pre-show: 🚨 LAST CHANCE FOR THE ATP HOLIDAY STORE 🚨 Note: long-sleeve and utes sizes have been added! Follow-up: Keyboard wear Finger grease (via Ryan Holmes) ABS plastic PBT plastic A true horror show (via Andrew) MacBook Pro thermal tests More about chip packaging …

Episode 149 Richard White, Founder & CEO of Fathom, San Francisco, California

 Richard White is founder and CEO of Fathom. Video, a free app that records, transcribes & highlights your calls so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.  Fathom was a part of the Y-Combinator W21 batch, is one of only 50 Zoom App Launch Partners, and is one of a small handful …

Life at the Speed of Play - Chapter 3: The MVP Trap

Continuing our summer read-along of Life at the Speed of Play by Mark Pincus, this week’s chapter goes after a term most of us in product have used without question for twenty years: MVP. Pincus’s argument is that the word “viable” is the problem. It’s become an excuse to overinvest before you’ve e…

Stop Taking Notes and Start Having Better Conversations with Richard White

3 Takeaways from my conversation with Rich White, CEO of Fathom AI: 1. Stop taking notes. Start having conversations. AI handles the details so you can focus on the people in the room. 2. The cost of a lost idea is greater than $15/month. One missed action item. One forgotten commitment. One misq…