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An extract from the coming leger “ The Optimist : Sam Altman , OpenAI , and the subspecies to fabricate the Future”offers unexampled detailsabout why OpenAI ’s boardbriefly fired CEO Sam Altmanback in 2023 .
Written by Wall Street Journal newsperson Keach Hagey , the book claims the nonprofit ’s plank members became progressively interested after learning about issue such as an OpenAI Startup Fund that was really own by Altman .
At the same time , co - founding father Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati were reportedly collecting grounds of what they saw as Altman ’s toxic and purchasable behaviour , concluded with screenshots from Murati ’s Slack distribution channel . For deterrent example , Altman allegedly claim the troupe ’s legal section said GPT-4 Turbo did n’t need to be look back by the joint safety gameboard , but the company ’s top lawyer denied sound out that .
After Sutskever provided this evidence to board member , they moved to oust Altman and name Murati as interim chief operating officer . But this quickly backfired , with OpenAI employees ( including Sutskever and Murati ) sign a missive require Altman ’s takings — which he soon did , withSutskeverandMuratisubsequently leaving to launch startups of their own .
