{"id":176544,"date":"2023-11-23T04:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/larry-summers-jumps-to-center-of-ai-stage-with-openai-board-seat"},"modified":"2023-11-23T04:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:23:04","slug":"larry-summers-jumps-to-center-of-ai-stage-with-openai-board-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/larry-summers-jumps-to-center-of-ai-stage-with-openai-board-seat","title":{"rendered":"Larry Summers Jumps to Center of AI Stage With OpenAI Board Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/larry-summers-jumps-to-center-of-ai-stage-with-openai-board-seat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late on Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/C: US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">OpenAI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-22\/sam-altman-to-return-as-openai-ceo-with-a-new-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">announced the return<\/a> of Sam Altman, its ousted chief executive officer, along with a revamped board that included one name not often associated with Silicon Valley: Larry Summers.<\/p>\n<p>The economist and former Treasury Secretary joined Bret Taylor, a former co-CEO of Salesforce Inc., and existing board member Adam D\u2019Angelo in forming what the company called an \u201cinitial board.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1554630D: US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s prior directors fired Altman suddenly on Friday, setting off a dramatic saga that cast doubt on the future of the most closely-watched startup and technology.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said it was still working to \u201cfigure out the details\u201d of its new management in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1727206187077370115\" title=\"post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">post online<\/a>. But with Summers it has a board member with deep ties to Wall Street and Washington \u2014 and an adamant belief that artificial intelligence is coming for white-collar jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late on Tuesday night, OpenAI announced the return of Sam Altman, its ousted chief executive officer, along with a revamped board that included one name not often associated with Silicon Valley: Larry Summers. The economist and former Treasury Secretary joined Bret Taylor, a former co-CEO of Salesforce Inc., and existing board member Adam D\u2019Angelo in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176544","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}