The OpenAI Drama & Sam Altman’s Firing, Explained

OpenAI, the company that introduced ChatGPT (for better or worse), fired CEO Sam Altman, the man behind the AI tool, in an unexpected shake-up last week, and now everyone is scrambling to pick up the pieces. We all knew that AI would take our jobs, but not in this way.

On Friday, OpenAI announced “leadership changes” which was just a fancy way to say that Altman was fired from his leadership position. The company announced the change in a blog post: “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the statement read.

The post continued, “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” Altman was fired late Friday, though he already has a job lined up at Microsft, who are big investors in the company and were allegedly not happy about OpenAI’s decision to fire Altman. Altman took to Twitter to respond to the news:

will have more to say about what’s next later.