In a letter published on Monday, numerous workers at OpenAI, the firm that created ChatGPT, stated that they would quit if the company’s board of directors did not step down. (AFP via Getty Images / Marco Bertorello)(
The majority of OpenAI’s surviving staff members have stated they are willing to leave the company unless the board resigns, adding to the unprecedented chaos that the ChatGPT maker experienced over the weekend.
A letter demanding the reorganization of the company’s board has been signed by over 500 employees, including chief operating officer Brad Lightcap and chief technology officer Mira Murati.
“Your actions have demonstrated that you are not capable of managing OpenAI,” the employees, who make up the bulk of the company’s seven hundred or so workers, stated in their letter. “We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgment and care for our mission and employees.”
The action was taken after CEO Sam Altman was fired by a small group of board members afterAccording to a review, the board of directors lost faith in him as a leader of the company because he was “not consistently candid in his communications” with them.
Ousted CEO hired by Microsoft
Although the move caused a stir in the technology sector, Altman’s unemployment was brief.
Microsoft revealed on Monday morning that it had appointed Greg Brockman, a fellow former OpenAI executive, and Altman to lead its own artificial intelligence division.
The primary financial supporter of OpenAI is Microsoft, and CEO and chairman Satya Nadella was unaware of the internal changes at the company.
Sam Altman, the then-CEO at OpenAI, speaks before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law hearing on artificial intelligence, in May 2023, in Washington, D.C. Altman has joined Microsoft just days after being forced out at OpenAI. (Patrick Semansky/The Associated Press)
Nadella expressed his commitment to his company’s collaboration with OpenAI in a post on X, the former Twitter platform. He also expressed his excitement about “getting to know” OpenAI’s new CEO, Emmett Shear, a former Twitch leader, and the rest of the management group.
“We’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team,” Nadella stated.
“The mission continues,” responded Altman on X, while co-founder and former president of OpenAI Brockman wrote, “We are going to build something new & it will be incredible.”