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    Incumbent Nelson Coates retains post as Art Directors Guild President 

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Results have been announced in a special rerun of elections held earlier this year for the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800), as mandated by the Department of Labor. 

    Incumbent Guild President Nelson Coates defeated Joseph Musso. Jim Wallis defeated incumbent ADG Vice President Patrick DeGreve. Guild Secretary Tom Wilkins defeated challenger Patricia Klawonn, while incumbent Treasurer Oana Bogdan retained her position against Cate Bangs.

    Board trustees elected from the four crafts within the Guild are Dawn Snyder, Art Directors (AD); Joel Cohen, Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists (STG); Chad Frey, Set Designers and Model Makers (SDMM), running unopposed, and Marty Kline, Illustrators and Matte Artists (IMA), also unopposed.

    Elected to the ADG Council are Judy Cosgrove, Joseph Garrity, John Iacovelli, Vincent Jefferds, Patricia Klawonn, Rachel Robb Kondrath, Dina Lipton. STG Council members elected are Cristina Colissimo, Michael Denering, Russell Dunn, Lockie Koon and Timothy Swope. SDMM Council members are John P. Bruce, Adriana Dardas, Mark Haber, Karl Martin and Jim O’Donnell, while Tim Burgard, Benton Jew and Joseph Musso ran unopposed for the IMA Council.

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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