AI firm’s board said Altman was ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board’ and had lost its confidence
Interview: Sam Altman on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it
Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, has been ousted from his own company after its board accused him of “being not consistently candid in his communications”.
Altman’s dismissal is a major shakeup in Silicon Valley. Following the launch of ChatGPT, the wildly popular chatbot developed by OpenAI, Altman became one of the world’s most visible tech executives and a sought-after expert on artificial intelligence.
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