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SAN FRANCISCO: Sam Altman’s shock return as chief executive of OpenAI late Tuesday (Nov 20) – days after being sacked – caps a chaotic period that highlighted deep tensions at the heart of the Artificial Intelligence community.
The board that fired Altman from his role as CEO of the ChatGPT creator has been almost entirely replaced following a rebellion by employees, cementing his position at the helm of the firm.
The sole survivor in the boardroom in the new Altman era is Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of question-and-answer site Quora.
He will be joined by ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and by former US Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University, Larry Summers.
In Summers, Altman will find a seasoned economist and well-known figure in Washington, who has spoken of both the dangers and opportunities of ChatGPT for the “cognitive classes”.
“ChatGPT is gonna replace what doctors do, hearing symptoms and making diagnoses before it changes what nurses do,” Summers told Bloomberg News earlier this year.
Neither Altman nor OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman – who quit as company president following Altman’s sacking – will return to the board, which could soon have as many as six additional members, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“I love OpenAI, and everything I’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together,” Altman wrote in a social media post late Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter.
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