Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI's Board

The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developer's board last November, before regaining his CEO position days later, is now getting his director seat back, too. Altman and three veteran business executives, all women, were named to OpenAI's board on Friday, OpenAI announced in a blog post Friday. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony executive; and Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Meta executive are the others joining the board. OpenAI has been looking to expand the board for months, after announcing an interim board after the November chaos. It was formed after a deal between some board members who had pushed Altman out but then agreed to step down when more than 95 percent of OpenAI employees threatened to quit if he wasn't brought back.