On November 17th, 2023, OpenAI’s board shocked everyone by suddenly ousting co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. He had been overseeing one of the fastest-growing app launches in history with ChatGPT, so what happened? Former board member Helen Toner is filling in blank spaces in an interview on The TED AI Show podcast, providing her perspective on the events that caused board members to stop trusting Altman, as well as how he eventually returned.
OpenAI rapidly shuffled through interim CEOs, employees including at least one of the board members who fired Altman pushed for his return, and OpenAI’s lead investor, Microsoft, put its support behind Altman, too. However, Toner points out three reasons she believes the pressure to restore Altman was so strong. She claims employees were presented with only two options about how things could go , and since people didn’t want the company to fall apart, they supported the other one.
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