At this point, I wonder if it's part of seniority employment contract to publicly announce departure? One of Sam's strategies for OpenAI publicity is to state it's "too dangerous to be in the common man's hands" (since at least GPT-2) - and this strategy seems to generate a similar buzz too?

I wonder if this is just continued creative guerilla tactics to stir the "talk about them maybe finding AGI" pot.

That or we're playing an inverse Roko's Basilisk.