{"id":176252,"date":"2023-11-18T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/these-are-the-people-that-fired-openai-ceo-sam-altman"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:25:05","slug":"these-are-the-people-that-fired-openai-ceo-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/these-are-the-people-that-fired-openai-ceo-sam-altman","title":{"rendered":"These Are The People That Fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-are-the-people-that-fired-openai-ceo-sam-altman2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to OpenAI\u2019s corporate governance, directors\u2019 key fiduciary duty is not to maintain shareholder value, but to the company\u2019s mission of creating a safe AGI, or artificial general intelligence, \u201cthat is broadly beneficial.\u201d Profits, the company said, were secondary to that mission. OpenAI first began posting the names of its board of directors on its website in July, following the departures of Reid Hoffman, Shivon Zilis and Will Hurd earlier this year, according to an archived version of the site on the Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n<p>One AI-focused venture capitalist noted that following the departure of Hoffman, OpenAI\u2019s non-profit board lacked much traditional governance. \u201cThese are not the business or operating leaders you would want governing the most important private company in the world,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s who made the decision for Altman to be fired, and for Brockman to be removed from its board of directors. <strong>Update:<\/strong> Altman didn\u2019t get a vote, <em>The Information<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/before-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety?rc=viwsit\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/before-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety?rc=viwsit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"reported\">reported<\/a>. Brockman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gdb\/status\/1725736242137182594?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gdb\/status\/1725736242137182594?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"posted\">posted<\/a> an account of his version of events to X that indicated the board had acted without his knowledge as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to OpenAI\u2019s corporate governance, directors\u2019 key fiduciary duty is not to maintain shareholder value, but to the company\u2019s mission of creating a safe AGI, or artificial general intelligence, \u201cthat is broadly beneficial.\u201d Profits, the company said, were secondary to that mission. OpenAI first began posting the names of its board of directors on its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1759,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-governance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}