OpenAI Employees Threaten Resignation Amid Leadership Crisis, US

Most of OpenAI’s employees have signed a letter threatening to resign unless the current board steps down and founder Sam Altman is reinstated. The letter, signed by approximately 600 of the company’s 770 employees, expresses dissatisfaction with the board’s competence, judgment, and care for the mission and employees of OpenAI. Following Altman’s sudden dismissal by the board on Friday, Microsoft, which owns nearly half of OpenAI, has brought on Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new in-house AI research team. Microsoft has assured OpenAI employees that there are positions for them at the new subsidiary if they choose to join. The unexpected shakeup within OpenAI and the subsequent mass resignation threat could have significant implications for the artificial intelligence field.