To the Board of Directors at OpenAl,
OpenAl is the world's leading Al company. We, the employees of OpenAl, have developed
the best models and pushed the field to new frontiers. Our work on Al safety and
governance shapes global norms. The products we built are used by millions of people
around the world. Until now, the company we work for and cherish has never been in a
stronger position.
The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from
the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company. Your
conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAl.
When we all unexpectedly learned of your decision, the leadership team of OpenAl acted
swiftly to stabilize the company. They carefully listened to your concerns and tried to
cooperate with you on all grounds. 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 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 company forward in stability.
Leadership worked with you around the clock to find a mutually agreeable outcome. Yet
within two days of your initial decision, you again replaced interim CEO Mira Murati against
the best interests of the company. You also informed the leadership team that allowing the
company to be destroyed "would be consistent with the mission."
Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAl. We
are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for
our mission and employees. We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAl
and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg
Brockman. Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl
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, such as 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
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15. Nick Ryder
16. Alex Paino
17. Miles Brundage
18. Matt Knight
19. Peter Welinder
20. Hannah Wong
21. Diane Yoon
22. William Fedus
23. Arka Dhar
24. Peter X. Deng
25. Jonathan Lachman
26. Aaron Hurst
27. Abe Land
28. Abigail Raman
29. Abram Wiesman
30. Adam Goldberg
31. Adam Goucher
32. Adam Groth
33. Adam Hupp
34. Adam Nace
35. Adam Perelman
36. Aditya Ramesh
37. Adrian Spanu
38. Adrien Ecoffet
39. Afsha Shaikh
40. AJ Ostrow
41. Ahmed El-Kishky
42. Aidan Clark
43. Akila Welihinda
44. Akshay Nathan
45. Alan Hickey
46. Aleksandr Borzunov
47. Alex Baker-Whitcomb
48. Alex Beutel
49. Alex Carney
50. Alex Chow
51. Alex Gee
52. Alex Iftimie
53. Alex Nichol
54. Alex Renzin
55. Alexander Karpenko
56. Alexei Karpenko
57. Alexey Ivanov
58. Alexander King
59. Alexander Kirillov
60. Alexandre Tachard Passos
61. Alexis Conneau
62. Ali Kamali
63. Alice Lee
64. Aliisa Rosenthal
65. Alison Harmon
66. Alison McPhail
67. Allan Jabri
68. Allie Teague
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69. Allison Tam
70. Alvin (Jiahua) Wang
71. Amanda Anderson
72. Amanda Tenanes
73. Amin Tootoonchian
74. Amol Shah
75. Ananya Kumar
76. Andre Saraiva
77. Andrea Vallone
78. Andrej Karpathy
79. Andrew Braunstein
80. Andrew Cann
81. Andrew Kondrich
82. Andrew Peng
83. Andrew Top
84. Andrew Tulloch
85. Andrew YuXuan Liu
86. Andrew Busker
87. Andrey Mishchenko
88. Andy Brown
89. Angel Demirev
90. Angela Jiang
91. Angie Luo
92. Anish Tondwalkar
93. Ankush Gupta
94. Anna-Luisa Brakman
95. Anna McKean
96. Anna Tifft
97. Anthony Malinao
98. Anton Tananaev
99. Anushree Agrawal
100. Artemis Seaford
101. Arun Vijayvergiya
102. Arushi Sardana
103. Arvind Neelakantan
104. Arzav Jain
105. Ashley Pantuliano
106. Ashvin Nair
107. Atty Eleti
108. Avi Nayak
109. Avital Oliver
110. Barak Michener
111. Rebecca Waite
112. Behrooz Ghorbani
113. Belinda Truong
114. Ben Leimberger
115. Ben Rossen
116. Ben Wang
117. Benjamin Burrell
118. Benjamin Sokolowsky
119. Benjamin Zweig
120. Bertrand Fan
121. Bianca Martin
122. Bill Peebles
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123. Bill Stavroulakis
124. Billie Jonn
125. Blake Samic
126. Bob Rotsted
127. Bobby Wu
128. Bogo Giertler
129. Boris Power
130. Bowen Baker
131. Boyang Niu
132. Brad Biegler
133. Brandon Wang
134. Brandon Houghton
135. Brendan Herron
136. Brendan Quinn
137. Brian Kelleher
138. Brittany Carey
139. Brittany Smith
140. Britton Jamison
141. Brock Whittaker
142. Brooke Chan
143. Bryan Ashley
144. Brydon Eastman
145. Cadran Cowansage
146. Caitlin Carroll
147. Cameron Raymond
148. Camillo Lugaresi
149. Carl Ross
150. Cary Bassin
151. Casey Chu
152. Catherine Yeh
153. Chak Ming Li
154. Chan Park
155. Coley Czarnecki
156. Corey Nayden
157. Channing Conger
158. Chelsea Carlson
159. Chelsea Voss
160. Chen Ding
161. Chia Chung (Yoshi) Wang
162. Chong Zhang
163. Chris Berner
164. Chris Brown
165. Chris Clark
166. Chris Finlayson
167. C