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Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team


San Francisco's mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of

San Francisco’s mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of the administration’s effort to embrace the tech industry. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, has never held elected office and ran against incumbent mayor London Breed as an outsider to the rough-and-tumble nature of San Francisco politics. Lurie previously called OpenAI’s CEO “one of the most important figures on the planet,” in a recent interview with The Information, and said he wants Altman and other tech leaders to play a role in reinvigorating downtown San Francisco.

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