OpenAI’s ouster of Sam Altman at the instance of a non-profit Board on Friday had the unpredictable effect on the AI talents the company had — they threatened to resign en masse if the Board refuses to reinstate him.

Ilaya Sutskever, the chief scientist played a bizarre role and he is the one who asked Sam to quit. Later he came into a self-correcting mode and tweeted his intention is ‘not to harm OpenAI.’

In the meanwhile, Microsoft was ready to accommodate the oustees and appointed Sam as the CEO of a new AI structure.

As we know, OpenAI being valued $90billion, has been thrown into a turmoil by its overarching non-profit Board. It seems Sutskever loves being esoteric, scared of AI attaining the god-like status. He would not like to have an unaligned AI contrary to the interests of humanity.

It is a strange case of a company where the state-of-the art technology is being hampered by some untested ideas.

The situation is pretty chaotic. Maybe, the Board imagined that there is rapid hurtling towards singularity. Could it be a locker-room mentality where rival views are expressed by colleagues?

It is a story with many twists and turns.

It is now learnt that the new Board of OpenAI has reinstated both Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in view of the supporting stand taken by the majority of existing employees. The new initial Board has Bret Taylor, Chair, Larry Summers and Adam D’Angelo. Bret Taylor is former, Salesforce co-CEO.Larry Summers, is former US Treasury Secretary. Adam is from Quora.

Though the technology AI is likely to flourish, this saga at OpenAI puts doubts in our minds about the future of OpenAI.