Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board

Altman has agreement to return, while most of the board that fired him is out.

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[JuniorTempest]

From what I've read, and based on the fact that OpenAI was NOT organized as a corporation, but a non-profit, I'd guess that Altman's gung-ho attempts to open the throttle on monetizing the corporate subsidy created to be able to make profits were in contrast to OpenAI's actual mission - which was to create an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that would think and reason as a human would, only "better" - is what caused the board to fire him.

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My guess is the "loss of confidence in his communications with the board" were because he didn't make it enough clear that the primary nature of partnering with Microsoft was to enrich investors, rather than simply fund the AIG development.

The thing is, if that were true, all the board had to do was release a statement that says something like this: "Despite trying to work with Altman for months to align his efforts with the founding goals of OpenAI, the two sides have not been able to resolve the issue satisfactorily and the OpenAI board has concluded that Altman is not the right person to lead the effort develop AI according to OpenAI mission: ensure AI benefits humanity and not threaten it."

Instead, the board mostly remained silent. It has come out that there was no malfeasance but there was a lack of candor in Altman's communications with the board. The lack of candor? Assigning the same project to two different people and expressing two different opinions about the same team member to two different board members, not about his AI chip effort nor the relationship with Microsoft.

Those are ridiculous and unconvincing reasons for firing Altman and that's why the board's actions remain highly suspect.