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Christiaan Hetzner

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Former openai board member reveals why sam altman was fired in bombshell interview we learned about chatgpt on twitter | History Defined

Former OpenAI non-profit board member Helen Toner (Credit: Jerod Harris—Getty Images for Vox Media)

One of the ringleaders behind the brief, spectacular, but ultimately unsuccessful coup to overthrow Sam Altman accused the OpenAI boss of repeated dishonesty in a bombshell interview that marked her first extensive remarks since November’s whirlwind events.

Helen Toner, an AI policy expert from Georgetown University, sat on the nonprofit board that controlled OpenAI from 2021 until she resigned late last year following her role in ousting Altman. After staff threatened to leave en masse, he returned empowered by a new board with only Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo remaining from the original four plotters. 

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