Former OpenAI board member explains why CEO Sam Altman was fired

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Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner said board members learned about ChatGPT from Twitter and didn’t know CEO Sam Altman owned the OpenAI startup fund.

OpenAI former board member Helen Toner, who helped to oust CEO Sam Altman in November, broke her silence Tuesday in a podcast appearance when she spoke about events inside the company leading up to the firing.

Altman was renamed CEO less than a week after the board fired him, but Toner's comments give insight into the board's decision for the first time.in November, broke her silence this week when she spoke on a podcast about events inside the company leading up to Altman's firing.One example she shared: When OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, the board was not informed in advance and found out about it on Twitter.

Toner said Altman gave the board"inaccurate information about the small number of formal safety processes that the company did have in place" on multiple occasions."For any individual case, Sam could always come up with some kind of innocuous-sounding explanation of why it wasn't a big deal, or misinterpreted, or whatever," Toner said.

"The two of them suddenly started telling us... how they couldn't trust him, about the toxic atmosphere he was creating," Toner said."They used the phrase 'psychological abuse,' telling us they didn't think he was the right person to lead the company to AGI, telling us they had no belief that he could or would change."

 

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