To the Board of Directors at OpenAl,

OpenAl is the world's leading Al company. We, the employees of OpenAI, have developed the best models and pushed the field to new frontiers. Our work on Al safety and governance shapes global norms. The products we built are used by millions of people around the world. Until now, the company we work for and cherish has never been in a stronger position.

The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company. Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI.

When we all unexpectedly learned of your decision, the leadership team of OpenAl acted swiftly to stabilize the company. They carefully listened to your concerns and tried to cooperate with you on all grounds. Despite many requests for specific facts for your allegations, you have never provided any written evidence. They also increasingly realized you were not capable of carrying out your duties, and were negotiating in bad faith.

The leadership team suggested that the most stabilizing path forward - the one that would best serve our mission, company, stakeholders, employees and the public - would be for you to resign and put in place a qualified board that could lead the company forward in stability. Leadership worked with you around the clock to find a mutually agreeable outcome. Yet within two days of your initial decision, you again replaced interim CEO Mira Murati against the best interests of the company. You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed "would be consistent with the mission."

Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAl. We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for our mission and employees. We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAl and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join. We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

1. Mira Murati
2. Brad Lightcap
3. Jason Kwon
4. Wojciech Zaremba
5. Alec Radford
6. Anna Makanju
7. Bob McGrew
8. Srinivas Narayanan
9. Che Chang
10. Lillian Weng
11. Mark Chen
12. Ilya Sutskever

Kara Swisher

register your business name almost for free

Big win loading for Bill Gate and Microsoft

Good, some capitalist just feel like they can do whatever

Wahala dey, can employees determine who to hire or fire?
Although, I know they can force the board to resign, but stating specifics on hire or fire? Hmmmm, make we dey watch

Microsoft playing chess with openai, and the worst thing is that openai doesn't even realize they are in a game

You can only make this move when you know you are VALUABLE and you are in a system that works. good one

Person wey Microsoft Employ Yesterday?

The matter is getting serious

How corporations work in USA is beyond my understanding. This is also how the Apple Founder Steve Jobs was sacked from a company he founded.

formulate this idea in a Nigerian company and see yourself standing on your own at the end of the day 😂 😂 😂

The go Don leak am and them go sack only una 😂

Wow!
Employees firing employers

As much as I love vawulence, Abeg make dem solve their differences amicably.

They cannot come and hinder my productivity because of unavailability of their free AI due to beaf between the board and 550 staff.

Oboy... e don set be that ooo

ukra:
Big win loading for Bill Gate and Microsoft

Not if the board reinstates the sacked duo and resigns

A revolution loading

What a condition

rhythyson:
What a condition

Even if they scatter, Bard na my backup.

Though not as good but it will do.

Hmm

Tech world is truly a world on his own

How many work/job field can do this

Issokay

TemplarLandry:
Cool story.

I dedicate “For The gods” by Seyi Vibez to them.
Great jam!

You don't have anything reasonable to contribute because it's not a thread about politics and tribalism. Dunderhead.

Let them quit already

Replace them with robots abeg

SharingIsLife:
How corporations work in USA is beyond my understanding. This is also how the Apple Founder Steve Jobs was sacked from a company he founded.

That you founded it does not mean you own it 100%

Owners of investment funds can fire you if they have any reason to believe that the direction the CEO is taking the business is not in their own best interest

OlujobaSamuel:
Wahala dey, can employees determine who to hire or fire?
Although, I know they can force the board to resign, but stating specifics on hire or fire? Hmmmm, make we dey watch

when

Let's see who blinks first

Big trouble for the Board of Directors (BoD), 550 employees at once?? With the authority with which they wrote, you would know these are the brains behind OpenAI.

Kai

This Sam Altman sacking is Shaking the world of AI.