MIRI leadership debate: new CEO's ex-Google SRE background vs comms role
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-05
A lively X debate surrounds MIRI's 2023 leadership changes: Malo Bourgon became CEO, Nate Soares moved to President, and Eliezer Yudkowsky took the board chair, as MIRI pivoted from technical research toward public comms and policy.
The flashpoint is Gretta Duleba — comms lead and later Eliezer's executive assistant for his book — who critics call a non-researcher. Defenders counter that she led multiple Google engineering teams from 2007-2015, including the Analytics SRE team running Google's highest-QPS service with five-nines uptime, plus Google Maps data quality. The thread also debates friend-to-friend upskilling versus formal hiring favoritism.
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