Greg Brockman, the chairman of OpenAI, has resigned in protest after the removal of CEO Sam Altman. The company's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is accused of orchestrating Altman's removal. The disagreement between Sutskever and Altman revolved around the company's direction and its ability to build safe AI technology.
Hours after Sam Altman was booted from the company by its board, Greg Brockman, another OpenAI cofounder and the company’s chairman, quit in protest. Brockman later posted details of Altman’s removal suggesting that the company’s chief scientist , Ilya Sutskever, had orchestrated the effort to remove the CEO . Brockman’s post claimed that Altman was told he was being fired by Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board.
Several accounts from inside the company suggest that a disagreement between Sutskever and Altman centered around the company’s direction, and specifically its ability to build more capable AI technology safely. “This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity,” Sutskever told employees at an emergency all-hands on Friday afternoon, according to a report in The Informatio
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