Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

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The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developers board last November, before regaining his CEO position days later, is now getting his director seat back, too...

Altman and three veteran business executives, all women, were named to OpenAIs board on Friday, OpenAI announced in a blog post..

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony general counsel; and Fidji Simo, the CEO and chair of grocery delivery company Instacart and a former Facebook executive, are the others joining the board...

WilmerHale also found that the prior boards decision did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security, the pace of development, OpenAIs finances, or its statements to investors, customers, or business partners, OpenAIs summary says..

Bret Taylor, who is chair of OpenAIs board and recently launched his own generative AI company, said during the press call on Friday that additional governance changes made alongside the expansion of the board to seven members would help better manage the nonprofit..