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concerns about the safety and speed of OpenAI’s tech deployment, which ostensibly unsettled some board members including Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and OpenAI’s chief scientist. Some fear that ChatGPT could herald the onset of artificial general intelligence (AGI)–one of the reasons for Sutsekever’s differences with a techno-optimist like Altman. The new initial board will comprise Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.
Sutsekever is no longer a board member but Altman said in a note that “... we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI". According to Altman, OpenAI will now focus on three priorities: advancing its research and investing more in “full-stack safety efforts, which have always been critical to our work"; improving and deploying more products; and improving the company’s governance structure.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by stalwarts including Altman, Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and Elon Musk, who served as a board member till 2018, when he quit over differences with Altman and Brockman. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital, following which Microsoft invested $1 billion in 2019, following up with an additional $10 billion this year. Altman said in his note after being reinstated as CEO that he was “looking forward to finishing the job of building beneficial AGI".
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