Tasha McCauley

Tasha McCauley is a tech entrepreneur and AI educator who served on the nonprofit board of directors at OpenAI from November 2018 until her resignation in November 2023 following CEO Sam Altman's reinstatement. She is best known for her testimony in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, where she described concerns about Altman's honesty, resistance to oversight, and the nonprofit board's inability to exercise meaningful governance over the company's for-profit arm. She has advocated for stronger government regulation of advanced AI, arguing that concentrated decision-making power in a single CEO is suboptimal when public safety is at stake.