If everything goes well, he can claim that he is the man behind all these to reunite the OpenAI team. If something goes wrong, well, no one is going to blame him, the board screwed the entire business. He is more like a emergency room doctor who failed to save a poor dude who just intentionally shot himself in the head with a shotgun.

It's now one day later and Altman is back as CEO - what can Emmett Shear claim exactly?

- helped to stabilized the situation

- the first to propose the idea of independent investigation into the matter

- sided with impacted employees all the way through such difficult moments

- supported a smooth transition period

depending on how he reacted when 90% employees signed that letter asking for altman's return, don't be too surprised if he claims to be guy how helped to push for that as well.