Sam Altman Returns to OpenAI Board, Worldcoin Reaches All-time High
After experiencing a series of turmoil, including the removal of the CEO and board members, board restructuring, and ultimately the return of Sam Altman as CEO, Sam Altman officially rejoined the board of OpenAI on March 9th. As a result, its subsidiary project, Worldcoin (WLD), saw a significant increase in value.
In order to expand the board of directors, OpenAI announced that in addition to adding three new directors, co-founder Sam Altman will also return to the board. The new directors include Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, former Deputy General Counsel and General Counsel of Sony, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart. Bret Taylor, Chairman of the OpenAI board, expressed his excitement in welcoming Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the board, stating that their experience and leadership will enable the board to oversee the development of OpenAI and ensure that they can fulfill their mission of benefiting all of humanity through general artificial intelligence.
Sam Altman tweeted that he has learned a lot from this experience and that he should have handled the situation with a former board member who he believed was harming OpenAI in a more elegant and thoughtful manner. He apologized for this and expressed his hope to do things differently. He expects that all participants sincerely believe that achieving AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) correctly is of utmost importance.
As a result of this news, Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s identity verification project, saw an increase in value starting from around 6:00 PM on the 9th. It reached a high of $10.33, an increase of 38.88% from $7.5, setting a new historical high. At the time of writing, it was around $10.26.
