Musk is entering the openai drama
A Communication Letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Chatgap, MS, Neuralink, and Hacker News
Altman was removed by OpenAI’s nonprofit board through an unconventional governance structure that, as one of the company’s cofounders, he helped to create. It gave a small group of individuals wholly independent of the ChatGPT maker’s core operations the power to dismiss its leadership, in the name of ensuring humanity-first oversight of its AI technology.
There have been many twists and turns since Friday, with Altman making a failed attempt to return as CEO, the board replacing Murati as interim CEO with Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear, Microsoft announcing it would hire Altman and Brockman, and almost every OpenAI employee threatening to quit unless Altman returned.
Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week.
A person who responded to an email sent to an address listed on the Github profile told WIRED they saw the letter via a discussion on Hacker News and posted a copy of the original, found on Board.net, which allows anonymous posts. The person said they later removed their copy of the letter to preserve their privacy, adding “I have no idea as to the veracity of any of the contents.”
According to Musk, the unsigned letter that is addressed to the Openai’s board appears to have been written by concerned former employees of the company. WIRED has not been able to verify the authenticity or any of the claims.
Musk has himself been accused of similar behavior at several of his own ventures, which include automaker Tesla, rocket maker SpaceX, and brain interface developer Neuralink.
