‘A Real Growing Up Moment For Me’: OpenAI’s 39-Year-Old CEO Says He Learned a Lot from Being Fired

It’s clear that Sam Altman, the 39-year-old co-founder of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, is looking ahead after he was fired (and quickly rehired) almost a year ago from the company he co-founded after the board accused him of not being “consistently candid.”

In a Tuesday podcast episode of Life in Seven Songs from the San Francisco Standard, Altman shared that the shock-firing “was this crazy traumatic thing to go through, and it was quite public.”

Related: Former OpenAI Board Member Reveals Why She Had CEO Sam Altman Fired

This follows an optimistic blog post that Altman published Monday, “The Intelligence Age,” outlining how he hopes AI will transform society in the next few

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