Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Technology@lemmy.world – 531 points – 8 months ago

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

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I asked Bard to give me a generic reason for firing a CEO.

Certainly, here are some vague reasons for firing the CEO of an AI company:
Leadership concerns: The CEO's leadership style or personal conduct was not in line with the company's values or culture. This could include issues such as lack of transparency, poor communication, or ethical breaches.

Yup.

Bard is on copium with that last one.

No, Bard is just making a prediction based on the way CEO firings are presented in press releases. Those press releases are never the "real" reason, what we're seeing here is the way a board would frame the firing of its CEO. "Ethical breach" is the term used when "The CEO was killing hookers for fun and WHOO-WEE we did NOT want to get any of that on us," is not considered appropriate to tell the press.