TIME ranks Sam Altman as CEO of the Year, Taylor Swift as Person of the Year
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, had a rather tumultuous November 2023, with the company's board of directors voting him out, Microsoft offering him a job, and only five days later to be inducted back into OpenAI. However, December started on a different note for the man who, according to AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky ‘responsibly brought AGI to the world’. Sam Altman was named CEO of the Year 2023 by TIME magazine.
Sam Altman marked ‘10-out-of-10 crazy thing to live through’ when he had to spend a rather strange Thanksgiving- losing a company he co-founded, only to be reinstated after five frantic days. Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI developed ChatGPT, a revolutionary tool, launched in November 2022. ChatGPT became one of the most rapidly adopted technology ever.
Altman had told TIME magazine, "For many people 2023 was “the year that they started taking AI seriously." Sam Altman emerged as the leader steering a ‘$80 billion rocket ship’ OpenAI after ChatGPT-4's success. His firing and swift re-hiring into openAI bore no consequence on his capabilities as a venerated executive, a CEO. Sam Altman, 38, has been Silicon Valley royalty for a decade, a superstar founder with immaculate vibes, says TIME.
TIME eulogized American singer Taylor Swift being made Person of the Year as, the editors pointed out, since 1927, the ‘person chosen has typically been a ruler over traditional domains of power. He—and yes, usually it has been a “he"—is very often a politician or a titan of industry. Fourteen US Presidents, five leaders of Russia or the Soviet Union, and three Popes have all been recognized.’ However, Taylor Swift ticks none of these boxes, and yet managed to reveals her social transformative capability throughout 2023, says TIME.
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