OpenAI staff threatened over chief’s sacking

About 500 OpenAI employees have signed a letter calling for the resignation of the company’s board and the reinstatement of fired chief executive Sam Altman.

According to Wired (an American magazine), the staff at the AI ​​firm behind ChatGPT who signed the letter threatened to resign if Altman was not brought back to the company. Microsoft I will go and join them in the new project.

The letter claimed that the board’s decision to remove Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman put the company at risk and accused the board of failing to oversee the company, the report said. is not

It called for the resignation of the board and the appointment of two new non-partisan directors in their place, and said that if their demands were not met, the signatories could resign from the company and join Microsoft. Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman with these new ones Artificial intelligence Can join the research team.

According to the report, the letter was signed by several senior OpenAI staff members, including the company’s chief technology officer and board member Elia Sotskiver, who was among those who initially decided to remove Altman. .

Suitscure has since posted on social media website X (formerly Twitter) that it ‘deeply regrets’ its involvement in the board’s move and will ‘do everything possible to reintegrate the company.’

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The demands from employees mark an unusual few days for the company, which announced the surprise decision to fire Altman on Friday. The board said in a statement that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue to lead OpenAI,” but did not give a specific reason for his dismissal.

Reports emerged late in the week that Mr Altman was in talks with OpenAI about returning as chief executive soon, but those talks are said to have ended when all of OpenAI’s Microsoft, the largest investor, announced in a post on Monday morning that Mr. Altman was joining the company’s new cutting-edge artificial intelligence research team.

OpenAI has since offered the chief executive position to former Twitch boss Emmett Scheer, who said he has agreed to join the company.

A number of OpenAI staff posted the same message on social media on Monday: ‘OpenAI is nothing without its people,’ the first sign of ongoing discontent within the firm.