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On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman after the board had no confidence in his leadership. The removal was caused by concerns about his handling of artificial intelligence safety , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and allegations of abusive behavior. [ 3 ]
On Friday, November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board, composed of researcher Helen Toner, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, AI governance advocate Tasha McCauley, and most prominently in the firing, OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced that they had made the decision to remove Altman as CEO and Greg Brockman from the board, both of ...
The Information speculated that the decision was partly driven by conflict over the extent to which the company should commit to AI safety. [37] In an all-hands company meeting shortly after the board meeting, Sutskever said that firing Altman was "the board doing its duty", [ 38 ] but the next week, he expressed regret at having participated ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk sparred publicly Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk and other investors have fielded a $97.4 billion offer to take control of the AI giant.
Sam Altman has denied Elon Musk's claim that OpenAI bars investors from investing in competitors. "That is false," Altman said Thursday in a sworn statement to a California judge.
Image credits: Exact_Week #2. I got fired because I got cancer, and after the chemo I wasn't as sharp. America, the land of the free, baby.
OpenAI cited competitiveness and safety concerns to justify this strategic turn. OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever argued in 2023 that open-sourcing increasingly capable models was increasingly risky, and that the safety reasons for not open-sourcing the most potent AI models would become "obvious" in a few years. [300]
The company's only goal and focus is safely developing "superintelligence” — a reference to AI systems that are smarter than humans. OpenAI co-founder Sutskever sets up new AI company devoted ...