Sam Altman to return to OpenAI’s board along with three new directors
NY Post
OpenAI revealed Friday that CEO Sam Altman will rejoin its board of directors – and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after wrapping up a secretive probe into the circumstances that led to his shock firing from the company last Nov. 17.
The surprise return of Altman, 38, is one of several additions to a restructured board of the nonprofit that oversees OpenAI. The other new board directors are Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former general counsel at Sony and Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart.
“I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the OpenAI Board of Directors,” board member Bret Taylor said in a statement. “Their experience and leadership will enable the Board to oversee OpenAI’s growth, and to ensure that we pursue OpenAI’s mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
OpenAI’s board now consists of a total of seven, with current members including Taylor, ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo. Microsoft has a nonvoting observer seat.
The nonprofit will add more members in the future, the company said during a Friday Zoom call with reporters, according to CNBC.
The ChatGPT maker descended into chaos just before Thanksgiving last year when the previous iteration of the board fired Altman for not being “consistently candid in his communications.”
