Yahoo Finance Live breaks down the day-by-day occurrences of the ousting and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with a variety of experts from November 17-24. On November 22, Professor Sinan Aral said, "OpenAI does not remain long-term profitable to its maximum potential if it creates safety risks that become public and apparent and create damage and difficulties for the company downstream."

For most jobs, it's surely preferable for a large employer to deal with the cost and hassle of fluctuating business requirements than it is for employees to cope with relentless uncertainty. As MIT professor of the practice Zeynep Ton argued in her book The Good Jobs Strategy, employers who figure this out will get better, more experienced and more committed staff than employers who offload all the costs of uncertainty on to their workforce.

When it comes to integrating generative AI, "retailers are getting better but are nowhere close to where they want to be," says Sharmila Chatterjee, academic head of enterprise management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In a recent paper titled The Quantum Tortoise and the Classical Hare research scientist Neil Thompson and co-authors write: "Quantum computing promises transformational gains for solving some problems, but little or none for others. The problem size matters because the benefit of an algorithmic advantage is larger for larger problems. This means that if a problem is too small, the classical computer will have already completed the problem by the time the quantum computer's algorithmic benefit kicks in."

MIT Sloan professor and "Superminds" author Thomas Malone said the OpenAI drama illustrates the tension between the power of community, such as concerns about AI safety, and on the other hand, the power of markets such as the desire to increase profits. He said both startups and big tech players can exploit the generative AI market, but early over-confidence has never been a winning strategy during waves of innovation. "In the history of tech, it is hard for dominant players to remain dominant," he said. 

On Here & Now, lecturer Shira Springer says: "Yes, we are making progress with the amount of coverage that women's sports are receiving but 15% is still so low in the bigger scheme of things."

Principal research scientist Andrew McAfee and co-authors write: "Generative AI promises to have a major impact on how businesses operate — and within a few years, not decades from now. Its tendency to confabulate and its privacy, intellectual property, and bias risks are all legitimate concerns, but they can be contained."

Senior lecturer Neal Hartman says: "Now, perhaps more than ever, companies must step up to create socially and environmentally responsible investments, reduce their carbon footprint, improve corporate policies regarding worker safety and income equality, oppose discrimination, and increase volunteer opportunities and charitable contributions."

Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee argues it's a mistake to think that geeky companies can only win in tech. They can — and have — made huge strides in areas like car manufacturing, entertainment, space exploration, and retail. Their approach, he believes, works because it "gives us more opportunities to learn. That's critically important. It also constrains some of the tendencies we have that get organizations into trouble," like overconfidence and status-seeking, which are universal.