> OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.
This prompted me to actually read up on the charter: https://openai.com/charter
No, this is obviously the key:
"review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board"
This is an explicit statement that he was lying to the board about something. It cannot be worded more clearly unless switching to use the word "lying".
"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."
Given the comment above correctly noted that they explicitly ended on a whole thing about how the board's key responsibility was their commitment to the original core mission, and their issue with his lying was interference with their responsibilities, this does seem to be connected to that.