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Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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After an attempted boardroom coup that lasted five days, Altman officially returned as CEO of OpenAI on Wednesday. The company’s biggest investor, Microsoft, is planning to take a non-voting board seat as well

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

During our interview, Altman repeatedly declined to answer the main question on everyones’ minds: exactly why he was fired to begin with.

Wtf is going on in that company ... despite the falling out, both he and the board are still covering for each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Well, they will have to work together in the future.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

TLDR: He doesn't want to talk about anything that happened, and the board is doing a "review" into what happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When OpenAI’s board asked Sam Altman to return a day after they fired him, he initially felt defiant, hurt and angry.

After an attempted boardroom coup that lasted five days, Altman officially returned as CEO of OpenAI on Wednesday.

During our interview, Altman repeatedly declined to answer the main question on everyones’ minds: exactly why he was fired to begin with.

Below is my full interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati, lightly edited for clarity:

It’s gonna take a real amount of time for people to think through this, to debate, to get outside perspectives, for pressure testing.

But I come back without any of the stress of “Oh man, I gotta do this, or the company needs me or whatever.” I selfishly feel good because either I picked great leaders or I mentored them well.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I kinda hope it was the ai that got him fired.