- Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI, has apologized for his role in Sam Altman’s ousting.
- Sutskever and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2016 with the help of Elon Musk.
- He has worked for some of the most prominent names in artificial intelligence for the last decade.
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever — who cofounded OpenAI with Sam Altman in 2015 — played a role in kicking the now-former CEO out of the company.
The chief scientist is a member of the board that made the decision to fire Altman. The board had said that it “no longer has confidence” in Altman’s ability to lead OpenAI, and said that he was “not consistently candid in his communications.”
But a few days later, Sutskever expressed his remorse for being involved in ousting Altman. And he’s now one of more than 600 OpenAI employees who signed an open letter threatening to quit unless the board resigns and re-appointes Altman as CEO.
“I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions,” Sutskever said in an X post. “I never intended to harm OpenAI.”
Here’s how Sutskever went from working at Google to a leading role at OpenAI.
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