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Emmett Shear posted on X on 20 November 2023 that he had accepted the role of interim CEO of OpenAI. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-11-20 · snapshot Role Interim CEO Scope and limits A first-person announcement of acceptance. The record does not establish start or end dates; OpenAI announced Altman’s return as CEO on 29 November 2023, in which Altman thanked “Emmett” for his role.
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Post of 20 November 2023 on becoming interim CEO of OpenAI ↗ X · 2023-11-20
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Paraphrase Shear writes that he was invited to consider becoming interim CEO of OpenAI and that he accepted.
Location in source Post text, first two sentences
How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Emmett Shear Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 4f3a668e0fed79f7b9997e9444191548ef148e32eaed221ab6e9d1ede0a0bb13) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Read through X’s syndication endpoint (text only). Publication date is the post’s UTC timestamp. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Emmett Shear, “Post of 20 November 2023 on becoming interim CEO of OpenAI”, 2023-11-20. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “interim CEO of @OpenAI” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board ↗ OpenAI · 2023-11-29
Archived copy, captured 2023-11-30: Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board ↗
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Paraphrase Altman thanks Emmett for a key and constructive role in reaching the outcome.
Location in source Altman’s message, paragraph of thanks
How it was read Read through a reader relay (r.jina.ai): a third-party rendering of the publisher’s current page, not an archive copy
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Sam Altman; Bret Taylor; OpenAI Version Web page dated November 29, 2023, inspected live 2026-10-04; quotes also matched in the Internet Archive capture of 2023-11-30 (02:05 UTC). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-04 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-11-30: Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board ↗ . Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-11-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.Attribution OpenAI, Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (29 November 2023). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Thank you also to Emmett” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Record ID lg-oai-shear-interim-ceo-2023