Hundreds of OpenAI employees have signed a letter demanding the return of Sam Altman as CEO of the company.
The OpenAI soap opera has continued since the dismissal of Sam Altman from his position as CEO of the company on Friday evening. Because if since then, he has easily managed to bounce back by finding a job with the historic partner of the artificial intelligence company, namely Microsoft, the employees still refuse this decision. And they made it known in a particularly threatening letter.
505 angry employees
It’s all over the place at OpenAI. After this very eventful weekend at the head of the company, it is now up to employees to speak out about the sudden disembarkation of Sam Altman. They have just done so in an open letter signed by 505 employees.
“ The process by which you fired Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board jeopardized all of that work and undermined our mission and our company » they denounced. As a reminder, after the sudden dismissal of Sam Altman, his number 2 Greg Brockman decided to resign from his position.
Ilya Sutskever takes part in the movement
In this same document, they demand a collective resignation of the entire board of directors, the appointment of two independent directors, and the return to their positions of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
If they were not heard, they explained that they were all ready to join their former boss within Microsoft. They assure that the firm founded by Bill Gates has already explained to them that it has open positions for each of them within the new AI research team headed by Sam Altman. A clearly existential threat to OpenAI.
Interestingly, among the signatories, we find the name of Ilya Sutskever, the scientific leader accused of having implemented the “coup d’état” against his boss. He seems to have since changed his mind, since in addition to this signature, he also said today on to regret [sa] participation in board actions. »What will happen now?
Source : Wired
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