OpenAI Board Hires Emmett Shear as CEO, Rejecting Campaign to Reinstate Sam Altman

OpenAI's board hired former Twitch chief Emmett Shear as chief executive officer, defying calls from investors to reinstate the ousted Sam Altman, according to people familiar with the matter. Shear stepped down as CEO of Amazon's game-streaming site Twitch earlier this year. He won over directors because he appeared to recognize the existential threats that AI presented, one of the people said. A computer scientist who spent more than a decade building Twitch into one of the world's most successful video platforms, Shear is regarded as having the heft to lead a large engineering group, the person added. Like some members of OpenAI's board, Shear has ties to the AI-skeptical effective altruism movement, which sees risks posed by advanced AI.