OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has 'full confidence' in his leadership after the conclusion of an outside investigation into the company's turmoil.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in the "Technology in a turbulent world" panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after the conclusion of an outside investigation into the company's turmoil.
"I'm pleased this whole thing is over," Altman told reporters Friday, adding that he's been disheartened to see "people with an agenda" leaking information to try to harm the company or its mission and "pit us against each other." At the same time, he said he's learned from the experience and apologized for a dispute with a former board member he could have handled "with more grace and care.
Much of OpenAI's conflicts have been rooted in its unusual governance structure. Founded as a non-profit with a mission to safely build futuristic AI that helps humanity, it is now a fast-growing big business still controlled by a non-profit board bound to its original mission. Nor was it about OpenAI's finances or any statements made to investors, customers or business partners, Taylor said.
After it retained the law firm in December, OpenAI said WilmerHale conducted dozens of interviews with the company's prior board, current executives, advisers and other witnesses. The company also said the law firm reviewed thousands of documents and other corporate actions. WilmerHale didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
But it has already forced open the company's internal conflicts about its unusual governance structure, how "open" it should be about its research and how to pursue what's known as artificial general intelligence, or AI systems that can perform just as well as -- or even better than -- humans in a wide variety of tasks.
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