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OpenAI announced Friday that it has reinstated CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors.
“We unanimously agreed that Sam and [OpenAI founder and president] greg [Brockman] They are the right leaders for OpenAI,” OpenAI Board Chairman Brett Taylor said in a blog post on Friday.
Mr. Altman was abruptly fired in November after the artificial intelligence company announced it had lost confidence in him, following a backlash from employees, investors and its biggest backer, Microsoft. He returned a day later.
A majority of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to quit, and Microsoft has announced it will hire Altman if he quits.
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OpenAI has reinstated CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Our investigation revealed a breach of trust between Altman and OpenAI. before his dismissalbut he hadn’t done anything to warrant firing.
“Mr. WilmerHale found that the previous board believed at the time that its actions would alleviate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that its actions would destabilize the company.” Open AI said.
The Board also added three new members to the Board. Dr. Sue Desmond Hellman is the former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a member of Pfizer’s board of directors. Nicole Seligman, former Sony Vice President and Global General Counsel, President of Sony Entertainment, and member of the Paramount Global Board of Directors. And he’s the CEO and chairman of Instacart, and he’s a member of the board of directors of Shopify, Fidji Simo.
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“I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fiji to the OpenAI Board of Directors as Chairs of the Board,” said Taylor. “Their experience and leadership will enable the board to oversee OpenAI’s growth and ensure that we pursue OpenAI’s mission that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity.”
After conducting dozens of interviews with former board members and reviewing tens of thousands of documents, OpenAI’s WilmerHale law firm conducted dozens of interviews with former board members and reviewed tens of thousands of documents. I expressed my full confidence in the continued leadership of Mr.
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“I’m glad it’s all over. That being said, I learned a lot from this experience,” Altman told reporters Friday, according to Axios.
