According to a recent statement, the OpenAI board was unaware of the extent to which abruptly removing Sam Altman would destabilize the company.
Sam Altman has returned to the OpenAI board, following a whirlwind series of events in November last year, where he was initially let go from the company, only to be reinstated within days.
According to a statement published on March 8, Altman has been brought back on to the OpenAI board of directors alongside three new members, including former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former EVP and General Counsel at Sony Corporation Nicole Seligman, and chair of Instacart, Fidji Simo.
In November 2023, Cointelegraph reported that the OpenAI board fired Altman for allegedly being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.”
