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> If Sam was responsible for that, he smuggled one hell of a trojan horse into OpenAI, and should have been fired a long time ago.

What's the likelihood that he signed onto a $10 billion investment deal from Microsoft without approval from the board?

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Sam might not have been candid with the board about the implications of the deal.

Then the board failed in their duty of oversight. Because they could have found this out regardless of Sam being candid or not, implications are the consequences of that which is written on the papers and those papers were presumably available for inspection by the board. Unless Altman changed the paperwork but that would be an entirely different level and based on the statements by the new CEO none of that was the case. It seemed to be mostly a reason made up by the board to make the firing look good.

Are you saying he asked them to approve a contract that the board never saw the terms of, and they agreed?

Zero. And if it was done without board approval then that would have been the moment to can him.

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