Governance

6 entries between August 2017 and August 2026, 1 turning point.

Turning points

  1. OpenAI’s board fires Sam Altman and reinstates him five days later

    OpenAI’s board removed Sam Altman as chief executive on 17 November 2023, saying it no longer had confidence in his leadership, and named Mira Murati interim chief executive. After nearly all staff threatened to resign and Microsoft pressed, Altman was back on 22 November.

Every entry

  1. Anthropic names Tino Cuéllar its first global affairs officer

    Anthropic said on 4 August 2026 that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and outgoing president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, would become its first chief global affairs officer, reporting to president Daniela Amodei.

  2. OpenAI’s board fires Sam Altman and reinstates him five days later

    OpenAI’s board removed Sam Altman as chief executive on 17 November 2023, saying it no longer had confidence in his leadership, and named Mira Murati interim chief executive. After nearly all staff threatened to resign and Microsoft pressed, Altman was back on 22 November.

  3. Twenty-eight countries sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI

    The United Kingdom held the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on 1 and 2 November 2023. Representatives of 28 countries and the European Union, along with the major AI companies, signed the Bletchley Declaration on developing and using AI safely and responsibly.

  4. AI researchers and executives sign a statement on extinction risk

    The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023, saying that reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority beside pandemics and nuclear war. Hundreds signed, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman.

  5. Future of Life Institute letter calls for a six-month pause

    The Future of Life Institute published “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” on 22 March 2023, asking every laboratory to stop training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. It gathered more than 30,000 signatures.

  6. The Asilomar AI Principles are published

    The Future of Life Institute published 23 principles on research practice, ethics and long-term safety, drawn from its Beneficial AI conference at Asilomar, California, in January. More than 1,700 AI and robotics researchers eventually signed them.