San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has picked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to assist run his transition crew as he prepares to take workplace in January, Lurie said.
“I’m excited to assist town I like, and the place OpenAI was began, because it begins its subsequent chapter with Mayor-elect Lurie entering into his new function,” Altman mentioned in a press release shared with Quick Firm.
Altman will serve on the crew alongside 9 different advisors, together with former Twitter CFO Ned Segal and prosecutor Nancy Tung. San Franciscans voted for Lurie, a Levi Strauss inheritor who has no governmental expertise, to interchange incumbent mayor London Breed, who many criticized for not having executed sufficient to curb town’s retail-crime and drug-abuse charges.
A part of Altman’s enchantment might be his huge affect in tech. Lurie must work to rebuild town’s relationships with tech and enterprise leaders who had condemned town’s work on the general public security disaster and, in some circumstances, even closed their workplaces and moved out.
“We every share a dedication to accountability, service, and alter,” Lurie mentioned in a press release saying his transition crew. “These leaders will present steerage as we transfer ahead, constructing a authorities that serves all San Franciscans.”