DC Welcomes Ex-OpenAI Board Member After Sam Altman Drama

Helen Toner finds out she isn’t going to have to hand over her private communications to Elon Musk while walking through Washington, DC, on an afternoon in June before the brutal heat has set in for summer. Toner, five months pregnant and on a mission to grab some food before a speaking engagement, proclaims herself “very, very glad” upon hearing the news, after I deliver it to her by reading aloud from a news alert on my phone as we head to a cafe in Penn Quarter.

The 32-year-old Toner is best known as one of the OpenAI board members who ...