Director of Strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Former OpenAI board member who voted to fire Sam Altman in November 2023, becoming a central figure in AI governance debates.
Toner became the most controversial figure in AI governance overnight when she voted to fire Sam Altman. Whether you think that was a principled stand for safety oversight or a catastrophic miscalculation, the episode exposed the fundamental fragility of nonprofit AI governance structures. Her subsequent public account of the board's reasoning — that Altman was not consistently candid — raised serious questions that OpenAI's corporate restructuring has never fully answered. She's now one of the most informed critics of the gap between AI safety rhetoric and corporate reality.
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