INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Nearly 500 OpenAI staff have threatened to quit unless all current board members resign and reappoint ex-CEO Sam Altman.In a
letter to the board, 490 OpenAI employees, including CTO Mira Murati and COO Brad Lightcap, said that they would follow OpenAI co-founder
Sam Altman, who said he was starting an AI subsidiary at Microsoft following his shock sacking from the company whose ChatGPT chatbot has
led the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology."The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from
the board has jeopardized all the work and undermined our mission and company
Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAl," the employees said in the letter.Ousted amidst AI
revolution, know about Sam Altman"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
board, who had been accused of coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman.Just before the letter was released, Sutskever posted on X: "I
deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
I never intended to harm OpenAI
I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.""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 letter
said."Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI 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," the
letter concluded.On November 18, the ChatGPT-maker company, OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman
His sacking triggered several other high-profile departures from the company, as well as a reported push by investors to bring him back.Why
Subsequently, she was also removed from her position after she publicly aligned herself with Altman.Supporting Emmet Shear as the new
interim CEO, the latest company memo seen by The New York Times, stated, "The board said Mr
memo said, "The board firmly stands by its decision as the only path to advance and defend the mission of OpenAI." The memo added, "Put
the company in the manner it was mandated to do."(with input from agency)
