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Who were on OpenAI's board? "OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & Presi
by Leary 3y ago
Who were on OpenAI's board?
"OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner." [1]
[1]https://openai.com/our-structure https://openai.com/our-structure
- minimaxir 3y agoWhich is notable because Sam Altman is on said board, so he got outvoted.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoSo did Greg Brockman, what a weird turn of events
- paxys 3y agoHe would have been asked to step out and not had a vote in situations like these.
- mark_l_watson 3y agoWhy would Brockman have to step out of the room? EDIT: Brockman was voted out as the Chairman of the Board.
- paxys 3y agoWho said anything about Brockman?
- QuinnyPig 3y agoThe OpenAI post, for one: Brockman lost his board seat.
- zamfi 3y agoNot Brockman, Altman.
- mark_l_watson 3y agoAnother article I read said both Sam Altman and Brockman left the room for the vote.
- Aurornis 3y agoGreg Brockman was President and Chairman of the Board. He was also removed from the board in this process.
- ilkkao 3y agoThat board meeting will be in a movie someday I'm pretty sure.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoOnly if it was contentious. From the strength of the press release, it sounds like it was a unanimous forced-hand decision.
- UncleOxidant 3y agoI doubt that Altman voted to have himself removed so probably not unanimous. A movie scene about the reveal to the board would still be compelling.
- PeterisP 3y agoSince both Sam and Greg are gone, that implies a 4-2 decision, which is as far from unanimous decision as a 6-person board could possibly make.
- dragonwriter 3y agoGiven that personnel matters affecting an individual on the board often have mandatory recusal of the affected party, that's likely a 4-0 or two 4-1 decisions, depending on how they were structured.
- GabrielTFS 3y agoA single 4-0 decision would imply the bylaws allow any group of members to oust all the other members by making a single proposal to oust everyone but their group, thus automatically forcing everyone else to recuse themselves :p
- neuronerdgirl 3y agoYes, this can happen, though generally the ousting party would also need to be able to point to some policy or legal transgression to do it without putting themselves at risk of a lawsuit.
- ugh123 3y agoWho the heck is Tasha McCauley?
- CrimsonCape 3y agoThat's a fascinating question. I looked into this and haven't a clue, other than Joseph Gordon-Levitt's wife (?). If it's the same person, then she is a "tech-entrepreneur" with a surprising amount of liquidity and automatic privilege and titles despite no obvious achievement (unless you consider title-gathering an achievement).
- vdthatte 3y agoJoseph Gordon-Levitt played Travis Kalanick in super pumped
- jeron 3y agolife imitates art
- Apocryphon 3y agoMaybe the tech connection explains why he was intrigued by the role
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- shuckles 3y agoI think this is a legitimate question. There seems to be little public information about this board member, besides that they are married to a celebrity.
- ignoramous 3y agoOusted Sam Altman! Remember the name.
- davidmurphy 3y ago
- cornel_io 3y agoIf I'm reading this correctly, that means Ilya must have voted against Sam + Greg, right?
- DebtDeflation 3y agoYep. Ilya + the CEO of Quora + some AI governance/policy academic + the wife of an actor, together ousted Sam.
- mjirv 3y agoNo. As one of the other commenters mentioned, Sam (and possibly Greg) probably recused himself and didn't vote (likely forced to by the board's bylaws).
- DebtDeflation 3y agoSo maybe it was a 3-1 vote with Ilya voting against? That would be infuriating.
- jeron 3y agoinfuriating, but man it's gonna make a great HBO series
- DesiLurker 3y agoAssuming Ilya voted to fire him, this clearly was not about some technical oversight or something that was unknown which suddenly came to light. its likely over some financial stuff like burn rate or undisclosed partnerships.
- lukeplato 3y agoMy impression of Ilya is that it would be far more likely to be a safety related issue than a business/profits related issue
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- teabee89 3y agoUnless I am missing something, this must mean that Ilya voted Sam out and Greg down.
- kromem 3y agoResearchers/scientists vs VCs seems to be the theme of what was going on behind the scenes, so that makes sense.
- strikelaserclaw 3y agohope the scientists win, money men have made too much money off the ideas of others. They just pool money, hedge their bets and wait for a whale.