OpenAI investigation says it was wrong to fire Sam Altman

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Altman will rejoin OpenAI’s board after an independent investigation found that the circumstances of his sudden firing ‘did not mandate removal.’

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By Alex Heath, a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He’s covered the tech industry for over a decade at The Information and other outlets.

Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI DevDay.

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An independent investigation commissioned by OpenAI has found that CEO Sam Altman’s conduct “did not mandate removal.” After surviving an attempted board coup in November, he will now rejoin the the organization board.

Board chair Bret Taylor also announced three other board members on Friday: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former legal executive at Sony, and Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart. They will join Taylor, Altman, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, and Larry Summers in governing OpenAI’s nonprofit parent company.

In a statement shared with The Verge, Taylor said the law firm WilmerHale interviewed board members, company employees, and “reviewed more than 30,000 documents” to reach the conclusion that Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman “are the right leaders for OpenAI.”

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This post was originally published on The Verge

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