Greg Brockman announced his resignation, citing recent events and expressing satisfaction with the group’s accomplishments since the company’s establishment.
The company’s announcement of Sam Altman’s departure, which it attributed to a lack of confidence in, suggests that internal strife at OpenAI is getting worse. Not long after, president and co-founder of OpenAI Greg Brockman announced his departure from the company.
Citing recent events and expressing satisfaction in the group’s accomplishments since the company’s founding, Brockman announced his resignation on X (formerly Twitter). Says he
“I take immense pride in what we’ve collectively achieved since our humble beginnings in my apartment eight years ago. Despite facing numerous challenges, we’ve accomplished a great deal together. However, in light of today’s developments, I quit.”
Brockman reaffirmed his support for the goal of creating a safe general artificial intelligence for the good of all people. He was supposed to leave his position as board chairman as part of the recently revealed changes, but he would still be employed by the business as a reporting liaison to the new CEO.
Concerns regarding a possible talent drain at OpenAI are raised by Altman’s resignation as CEO. The former CEO’s future plans are also a subject of conjecture, as he stated he would disclose them later.
Significant differences with the CEO and the board, especially with co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, led to OpenAI’s decision to split from Altman.
The topics of contention were the company’s commercialization, the speed of technological advancement, and AI safety.
These conflicts reflect ongoing issues with developing ethical artificial intelligence (AI) at OpenAI, a problem the organisation has faced since its founding. Elon Musk left OpenAI in 2018 as a result of similar disputes in the past. A few staff members left in 2020 to start Anthropic.
OpenAI was first founded in 2015 with the intention of keeping cutting-edge AI out of corporate hands. However, the business changed to a for-profit organisation in 2019 following a sizeable investment from Microsoft.