To the Board of Administrators at OpenAI,
OpenAl is the world’s main Al firm. We, the workers of OpenAI, have developed one of the best 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 thousands and thousands of individuals all over the world. Till now, the corporate we work for and cherish has by no means been in a stronger place.
The method via 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 choice, the management staff of OpenAl acted swiftly to stabilize the corporate. They fastidiously listened to your issues and tried to cooperate with you on all grounds. Regardless of many requests for particular info in your allegations, you could have by no means supplied any written proof. Additionally they more and more realized you weren’t able to finishing up your duties, and have been negotiating in unhealthy religion.
The management staff instructed that probably the most stabilizing path ahead – the one that may greatest serve our mission, firm, stakeholders, workers and the general public – can be so that you can resign and put in place a certified board that might lead the corporate ahead in stability. Management labored with you across the clock to discover a mutually agreeable consequence. But inside two days of your preliminary choice, you once more changed interim CEO Mira Murati towards one of the best pursuits of the corporate. You additionally knowledgeable the management staff that permitting the corporate to be destroyed “can 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 those who lack competence, judgement and look after our mission and workers. We, the undersigned, might select to resign from OpenAI and be a 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 workers at this new subsidiary ought to we select to hitch. We’ll take this step imminently, until all present board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead unbiased administrators, corresponding to 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