A former Open AI board member now going public with the first detailed backstory behind CEO

Sam Altman's dramatic ousting last fall.

Our dear D'Rosa has the story in today's tech check, dear Drey.

This was bound to come out.

Bound to come out and finally we have some answers

confirming a lot of speculation and also

underscoring this growing divide that we're seeing in AI.

For the first time a former board member is speaking out

Helen Toner was one of the open AI members behind the coup and on a podcast she

pointed to a toxic atmosphere psychological psychological abuse, sketchy safety processes, and accuses

Altman of outright lying. One of the more fascinating and shocking revelations she

talked about was learning about the launch of

Chabee back in November of 2022 on Twitter. She says that the board was not

informed in advance. According to Turner, the only way to bring in a new

CEO was to go behind Sam Altman's back because

he would quote, pull out all the stops, do everything in his power to undermine the board to prevent

us from even getting to the point of being able to fire him.

Of course guys that did not work.

90% of open AI employees threatened to leave with Altman and he was reinstated.

We reached out to open AI.

Haven't heard back.

Since then though, since last November, the drama and the drive to commercialize at

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