The article also highlights that some board members found Altman to be an unnervingly slippery operator, accusing him of playing them off against each other by lying about their opinions. This behavior had reportedly been occurring for years. While a source familiar with Altman's perspective admitted that he was ham-fisted in his attempt to remove a board member, they denied that he tried to manipulate the board.
Key takeaways:
- A new report provides more detail on why Sam Altman was pushed out by the OpenAI board, revealing that he tried to get board member Helen Toner removed, but his plan backfired.
- Altman was seen as a 'slippery operator' by some board members, and was accused of playing them off against each other by lying about their views on Toner's removal.
- The board's dissatisfaction with Altman was not due to concerns about him pushing too fast towards artificial general intelligence, as previously reported.
- The situation was referred to internally at Microsoft as the 'Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck'.