Larry Summers and Bret Taylor are joining OpenAI's board as Sam Altman returns

– Larry Summers and Bret Taylor will join, while Adam D'Angelo will stay on.

Bret Taylor will chair the "initial" board, per the company's announcement

Taylor is a Silicon Valley veteran, having held stints at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce.

Larry Summers is an economist who was Treasury Secretary from 1999 to 2001 and president of Harvard university.

He is the cofounder and CEO of Quora, a question-and-answer website, was previously chief technology officer of Facebook, and joined OpenAI's board in 2018.

Announcing his venture on LinkedIn in February, Taylor said about AI:

He also compared the technology to Apple's iPhone and the creation of the internet browser.

He's also been outspoken about AI's threat to jobs and the threats it could pose.