前Instacart CEO Fidji Simo将于8月18日出任OpenAI的执行官，负责公司至少三分之一的业务，并直接向CEO Sam Altman汇报。Simo将担任“应用CEO”一职，专注于扩展和增长AI技术的使用案例。她对AI在医疗健康、职业生涯指导、创意表达和个性化教育等领域的潜力表示期待。Simo强调，AI技术的发展方向将决定其是促进普遍赋权还是加剧财富和权力集中。她此前于2024年3月加入OpenAI董事会。

🚀 Fidji Simo将担任OpenAI新设立的“应用CEO”一职，直接向CEO Sam Altman汇报，负责公司至少三分之一的业务，专注于扩展和增长AI技术的使用案例，标志着OpenAI在商业化和应用落地方面迈出了重要一步。

💡 Simo对AI在多个领域展现出的潜力表示高度看好，尤其是在推动医疗健康领域的突破、提供职业和生活指导、激发创意表达以及实现个性化教育等方面，她认为AI能够极大地提升人们的生活质量和效率。

⚖️ Simo在公开声明中表达了对技术发展方向的深刻思考，她指出，AI时代的重大技术趋势可能加剧财富和权力的集中，也可能促进普遍赋权。她强调，AI领导者今天的选择将决定未来的社会公平性，呼吁负责任地引导AI发展，以实现更广泛的社会效益。

🗓️ Simo的加入伴随着OpenAI内部的组织调整，她此前于2024年3月加入OpenAI董事会。她的新角色将专注于“使我们的‘传统’公司职能得以扩展”，以应对公司增长的新阶段，这表明OpenAI正在系统性地构建其商业运营能力。

Instacart’s former CEO, Fidji Simo, will start her new role as an OpenAI executive on August 18th, leading at least one-third of the company and reporting directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Simo will be “CEO of Applications,” tasked with scaling and growing the tech’s use cases. 

It’s a brand-new role, first revealed as part of Altman’s reorganization announcement in May. At the time, Altman wrote that he’d still oversee what he called the three pillars of OpenAI — research, compute, and applications — but that he would start to focus more on the research and compute side of things, including safety systems. Simo, on the other hand, will be more focused on product and growth.

In a memo to employees, which was also published on OpenAI’s blog, Simo wrote she was most excited for AI-led healthcare breakthroughs. She also wrote extensively about her belief in AI’s ability to help with career and life coaching, creative expression, time-saving, medical second opinions, regaining time, creative expression, and personalized tutoring.

Simo wrote that major technology trends can either expand access to power or “further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few — usually people who already have money, credentials, and connections.” She wrote that the choices the company and AI leaders make now “will shape whether the coming transformation leads to greater empowerment for all, or greater concentration of wealth and power for the few.” 

Simo first joined OpenAI’s board in March 2024. Her appointment came at the same time as CEO Sam Altman regained his board seat, after an internal investigation of the lead-up to his ouster. 

OpenAI’s applications department “brings together a group of existing business and operational teams responsible for how our research reaches and benefits the world,” Altman wrote in May, adding that Simo’s role will focus on “enabling our ‘traditional’ company functions to scale as we enter a next phase of growth.”