{"id":37179,"date":"2023-11-22T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/openai-staff-demand-board-resign-over-sam-altman-sacking"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:42:55","slug":"openai-staff-demand-board-resign-over-sam-altman-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/openai-staff-demand-board-resign-over-sam-altman-sacking","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI staff demand board resign over Sam Altman sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Staff at OpenAI have called on the board of the company to resign after the shock dismissal of former boss Sam Altman. In a letter, they question the board\u2019s competence, and accuse it of undermining the firm\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

They also demand Mr Altman\u2019s reinstatement. The sacking on Friday of a man who is one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence (AI), shocked the tech world.<\/p>\n

The letter\u2019s many signatories, who include senior staff, say they may themselves resign if their demands are not met. They also state that Microsoft has assured them that there are jobs for all OpenAI staff if they want to join the company.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, has put his name to the letter, despite being a member of the board which now finds itself under fire. Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he said that he had made a mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I deeply regret my participation in the board\u2019s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we\u2019ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company\u201d, he posted.<\/p>\n

In a fast moving and chaotic series of events over the weekend it seemed briefly that Mr Altman might get his job back, only for it to be announced he was joining Microsoft, a major funder of OpenAI.<\/p>\n

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella wrote on X, that Mr Altman would be leading \u201ca new advanced AI research team\u201d. Responding to the post confirming his new job, but before the letter was published, Mr Altman wrote \u201cthe mission continues\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will become OpenAI\u2019s new interim boss. Writing on X, he called the job a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime opportunity\u201d. But he added the way Mr Altman had been sacked was \u201chandled very badly\u201d and \u201cseriously damaged our trust\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Altman, 38, helped launch the firm \u2013 best known for creating the popular ChatGPT bot \u2013 and has become one of the most influential figures in the fast-growing generative artificial intelligence (AI) space.<\/p>\n

The sacking of such a high profile figure surprised industry watchers, and angered many in the company he\u2019d led \u2013 culminating in them demanding the board members resign.<\/p>\n

\u2018Embarrassing circus\u2019 Dan Ives of investment firm Wedbush Securities says Microsoft has ended up being strengthened \u2013 but the episode reflected badly on OpenAI.<\/p>\n

They were \u201cat the kid\u2019s poker table and thought they won until Nadella and Microsoft took this all over in a World Series of Poker move for the ages\u201d, he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe embarrassing circus show over the weekend at OpenAI was finally taken over by the adults in the room.<\/p>\n

\u201d OpenAI\u2019s new boss Emmett Shear is the former head and co-founder of video streaming service Twitch. A memo to OpenAI\u2019s staff said he had a \u201cunique mix of skills, expertise and relationships that will drive OpenAI forward\u201d.<\/p>\n

In spite of now being at the helm of one of the world\u2019s most powerful AI companies \u2013 and being a self-described \u201ctechno-optimist\u201d \u2013 Mr Shear has expressed concerns about what he sees as the potential existential threat posed by the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like someone invented a way to make 10x [ten times] more powerful fusion bombs out of sand and bleach, that anyone could do at home\u201d, he told the Logan Bartlett Show podcast in June. The exact reasons for Mr Altman\u2019s sacking by the board remain unclear.<\/p>\n

On Friday, when OpenAI announced it was firing Mr Altman, it accused him of not being \u201cconsistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\u201d \u2013 but did not specify what he is alleged to have not been candid about.<\/p>\n

Mr Shear has addressed some of the speculation on the subject. \u201cThe board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models\u201d, he wrote on X. The mention of safety could suggest that this was not a disagreement about the management of the risks AI may pose, though the words are open to interpretation. But Mr Shear committed to hiring an independent investigator \u201cto dig into the entire process\u201d.<\/p>\n

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