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Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub and a prolific investor in artificial intelligence startups, was asked by an OpenAI board member to take over as the Interim CEO of OpenAI on Sunday but he declined the offer, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The refusal shows the challenges facing OpenAI’s board in finding a new leader following the board’s Friday firing of OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, which set off a string of senior resignations. Late Sunday, OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said Altman would not be reinstated, as some employees wanted, and that Emmett Shear, co-founder of Amazon-owned video streaming site Twitch, would take over as Interim CEO.
