To the Board of Administrators at OpenAI,
OpenAl is the world’s main Al firm. We, the workers of OpenAI, have developed the perfect fashions and pushed the sector to new frontiers. Our work on Al security and governance shapes world norms. The merchandise we constructed are utilized by hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide. Till now, the corporate we work for and cherish has by no means been in a stronger place.
The method by which you terminated Sam Altman and eliminated Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and firm. Your conduct has made it clear you didn’t have the competence to supervise OpenAl.
Once we all unexpectedly realized of your resolution, the management crew of OpenAl acted swiftly to stabilize the corporate. They rigorously listened to your issues and tried to cooperate with you on all grounds. Regardless of many requests for particular information to your allegations, you’ve gotten by no means supplied any written proof. In addition they more and more realized you weren’t able to finishing up your duties, and had been negotiating in dangerous religion.
The management crew steered that essentially the most stabilizing path ahead – the one that will greatest serve our mission, firm, stakeholders, staff and the general public – could be so that you can resign and put in place a certified board that would lead the corporate ahead in stability. Management labored with you across the clock to discover a mutually agreeable end result. But inside two days of your preliminary resolution, you once more changed interim CEO Mira Murati towards the perfect pursuits of the corporate. You additionally knowledgeable the management crew that permitting the corporate to be destroyed “could be in step with the mission.”
Your actions have made it apparent that you’re incapable of overseeing OpenAl. We’re unable to work for or with people who lack competence, judgement and look after our mission and staff. We, the undersigned, could select to resign from OpenAI and be part of the newly introduced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl staff at this new subsidiary ought to we select to hitch. We are going to take this step imminently, until all present board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead impartial administrators, reminiscent of 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
13. John Schulman
14. Barret Zoph
