Amidst the pre-Thanksgiving holiday drama at OpenAI, in which CEO Sam Altman was abruptly fired by the company’s board of directors, some of the board's lesser-known members found themselves thrust into the spotlight. Helen Toner, a 31-year-old academic from Australia, was among them, swiftly acquiring a less-than-flattering rap online for her role in ousting the popular AI chief.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Toner finally told her side of what had unfolded over the five-day fiasco—and accused the company of an “intimidation tactic” in an effort to get her to restore Altman to the throne.
