According to the trade press, more than 500 employees of OpenAI, the company responsible for products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, are threatening to leave the company after the company’s board of directors fired former executive president Sam Altman.
In the letter, employees suggest that the board of directors is “unable to control” the company. “We cannot work for or with people who lack competence, judgment and concern for our mission and our people. “We may decide to leave OpenAl and join the recently announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman,” the document said. .
“Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process conducted by the board of directors, which concluded that he was insincere in his communications, which adversely affected his ability to perform his duties. The board of directors no longer has confidence in his ability to continue to lead OpenAI,” the company said. upon the dismissal of Sam Altman.
Introducing OpenAI ChatGPT to the world turned Altman, 38, into a huge celebrity, gaining an audience among world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
OpenAI’s board of directors currently includes Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientific officer, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Security Center for Emerging Technologies and Technology Director of Strategy Helen Toner.
However, Ilya Sutskever, who also helped create OpenAI, was the main influence in the board firing Sam Altman.