Draft:Tasha McCauley

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Tasha McCauley (born February 17, 1981) is an American scientist, entrepreneur, and educator. She previously served as CEO at GeoSim Systems.[1]

She was one of the independent board members of OpenAI Nonprofit[2][3] from 2018 through four days after voting to fire CEO Altman on November 17, 2023.[4][5][6] The directors became concerned about Altman's behavior. For example, Time reported, "Altman told one board member that another believed [board member] Toner ought to be removed immediately, which was not true, according to two people familiar with the discussions." As directors of the not-for-profit, "their job", Time reported, "was to exercise their judgment to ensure the company was acting in the best interests of humanity," but that the board couldn't trust Altman because of several such incidents, and so fired him.[6]

Forbes reports McCauley is an adjunct senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation, had cofounded Fellow Robots and GeoSim Systems, signed the Asilomar AI Principles, advises the Center for the Governance of AI along with fellow former OpenAI director Helen Toner, an is a board member of the Effective Ventures Foundation, parent of the Centre for Effective Altruism.[7]McCauley has a USC Marshall MBA.[8] She is multilingual, fluent in English, Spanish, and Arabic, and has served as a firefighter in New York.[9]

Personal Life[edit]

Tasha McCauley is married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the American actor and filmmaker, and they have two sons together.[10][11][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Patel, Nilay (2023-11-18). "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  2. ^ "OpenAI LP". openai.com. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  3. ^ "OpenAI Board of Directors: Ilya Sutskever to Tasha McCauley, who removed Sam Altman as CEO". cnbctv18.com. 2023-11-18. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  4. ^ Titcomb, James; Field, Matthew (23 November 2023). "How the Oppenheimer of AI defeated the doomsayers". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  5. ^ @OpenAI (21 Nov 2023). "Tweet 1727206187077370115". X (formerly Twitter).
  6. ^ a b Naina Bajekal, Billy Perrigo (6 December 2023). "Sam Altman Is TIME's 2023 CEO of the Year". TIME.
  7. ^ Konrad, Alex. "These Are The People That Fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman". Forbes.
  8. ^ "OpenAI Board of Directors: Ilya Sutskever to Tasha McCauley, who removed Sam Altman as CEO". CNBCTV18. 18 November 2023.
  9. ^ Ross, Martha (2 January 2015). "Joseph Gordon-Levitt marries Silicon Valley entrepreneur". The Mercury News.
  10. ^ Thompson, Eliza (29 September 2023). "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tasha McCauley's Relationship Timeline". Us Weekly.
  11. ^ "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tasha McCauley Welcome Second Son". People Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  12. ^ "Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Wife Tasha McCauley Pregnant With Baby No. 2". E! Online. 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2023-12-24.