An extract of the next book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, Operai and the race to invent the future” It offers new details On why the OpenAI board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman in 2023.
Written by the Wall Street Joachy reporter, Keach Hagey, the book states that the members of the Board of the non -profit organization worried more and more after learning about topics such as an OpenAi start fund that was actually personally owned by Altman.
At the same time, co -founder Ilya Sutskever and the CTO Mira Murati, according to the reports, collected evidence of what they saw how Altman’s toxic and dishonest behavior, complete with screenshots of the Slack channel of Murati. For example, Altman allegedly stated that the company’s legal department said GPT-4 Turbo did not need to be reviewed by the Joint Security Board, but the company’s main lawyer denied having said that.
After Sutskever provided this evidence to the members of the Board, they moved to expel Altman and appoint Murati as an interim CEO. But this quickly failed, with Operai employees (including Sutskever and Murati) signing a letter that requires Altman’s return, which he soon did, with Sutskever and Murati later leaving his account.
