A WSJ editorial I can agree with is so rare that I've to the point I hardly ever click on them anymore. I only looked at this because Quintanilla posted it
Like I & others have been saying since Day2-3 after this incident came out: the AI did NOT go rogue at OpenAI. OpenAI's human engineers failed.
![Cantor Fitzgerald sued American Airlines for negligence—because on 9/11, AA failed to [checks notes] prevent its plane from being hijacked. Which seems, to me, like a dick move.
Dick move or not, Cantor won a $135 million settlement from AA in December 2013. The lion’s share went to the firm’s partners. As best as anyone can tell, no one pocketed more of the settlement money than Howard Lutnick. As Fox News reported at the time:
Speculation in the firm suggests Lutnick took anywhere from $15 million to $25 million from the settlement. A spokeswoman for Cantor would not deny he was entitled to receive millions of dollars, and neither she nor Lutnick would deny the speculated amount.
“All of the money for the business interruption recovery relating to the American Airlines case went either to strengthen and support the overall business, or to the over 600 Cantor Partners, precisely proportionate with the exact stake in the company, Mr. Lutnick included,” the spokeswoman said. “For five years, Cantor’s Partners provided 25% of the firm’s profits to the 9/11 families, a total of at least $180 million, in addition to ten years of health benefits.”
Lutnick declined to comment.
A senior executive at Cantor said the manner in which the settlement was distributed, including the chunk of money Lutnick received, is entirely appropriate since Cantor never promised family victims a portion of the money in the first place. The executive described the case against American Airlines as a “business interruption lawsuit” since Cantor’s offices were destroyed in the attack, meaning it was appropriate for the company to keep the money.
Both Lutnick’s decisions to halt the missing employees’ paychecks and to pocket so much of the AA settlement money remain a sore subject for many of the Cantor Fitzgerald 9/11 families.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5zmqxbsweq2uo7ujs6v3m4n5/bafkreiefsuov4znmlvx6ufg2pt3er7stufx7vsonl74yjluznzggoajdmi)
