We now have more details on what the heck happened at OpenAI
- A new report described in more detail why the OpenAI board initially pushed out Sam Altman.
- Altman reportedly tried to get a board member, Helen Toner, kicked out, but it backfired.
The New Yorker on Friday published a long article with many new details on what it said happened on the OpenAI board that led to the firing of CEO Sam Altman — a fiasco that the outlet said was internally referred to at Microsoft as the "Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck."
The writer just happened to have been spending the past six months working on a story focused on Microsoft's chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, and Mira Murati, who worked in that role at OpenAI. Then, suddenly, he was in the middle of the biggest tech-news scandal of the moment.
The New York Times previously reported the reason the board soured on Altman wasn't because it thought he was racing too fast toward artificial general intelligence but that he had tried to push out a board member, Helen Toner, and it backfired on him.
But now we have some more details, according to The New Yorker. Here's what the outlet wrote in part (emphasis added):