The Employee Letter to OpenAI’s Board

To the Board of Directors at OpenAI, OpenAl is the world's leading Al company. We, the employees of OpenAI, 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 OpenAI 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

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. Jonathan Lachman 25. Abe Land 26. Aaron Hurst 27. Abigail Raman 28. Abram Wiesman 29. Adam Goldberg 30. Adam Goucher 31. Adam Groth 32. Adam Hupp 33. Adam Nace 34. Adam Perelman 35. Aditya Ramesh 36. Adrian Spânu 37. Adrien Ecoffet 38. Afsha Shaikh 39. AJ Ostrow 40. Ahmed El-Kishky 41. Aidan Clark 42. Akila Welihinda 43. Akshay Nathan 44. Alex Baker-Whitcomb 45. Alex Beutel 46. Alex Carney 47. Alex Chow 48. Alex Gee 49. Alex Iftimie 50. Alex Nichol 51. Alex Renzin 52. Alexander Karpenko 53. Alexei Karpenko 54. Alexander King 55. Alexander Kirillov 56. Alexandre Tachard Passos 57. Alexis Conneau 58. Ali Kamali 59. Alice Lee 60. Aliisa Rosenthal 61. Alison Harmon 62. Alison McPhail 63. Allan Jabri 64. Allie Teague 65. Allison Tam 66. Alvin (Jiahua) Wang 67. Amanda Anderson 68. Amanda Tenanes

69. Amin Tootoonchian 70. Amol Shah 71. Ananya Kumari 72. Andre Saraiva 73. Andrea Vallone 74. Andrew Braunstein 75. Andrew Cann 76. Andrew Kondrich 77. Andrew Peng 78. Andrew Top 79. Andrew Tulloch 80. Andrew YuXuan Liu 81. Andrew Busker 82. Andrey Mishchenko 83. Andy Brown 84. Angel Demirev 85. Angela Jiang 86. Angie Luo 87. Anish Tondwalkar 88. Ankush Gupta 89. Anna-Luisa Brakman 90. Anna McKean 91. Anna Tifft 92. Anthony Malinao 93. Anton Tananaev 94. Anushree Agrawal 95. Arun Vijayvergiya 96. Arvind Neelakantan 97. Arzav Jain 98. Ashley Pantuliano 99. Ashvin Nair Atty Eleti Avi Nayak Avital Oliver Barak Michener Rebecca Waite Behrooz Ghorbani 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. Belinda Truong 107. Ben Leimberger 108. Ben Rossen 109. Ben Wang 110. Benjamin Burrell 111.Benjamin Sokolowsky 112. Benjamin Zweig 113. Bertrand Fan 114. Bianca Martin 115. 116. Bill Peebles Bill Stavroulakis 117. Billie Jonn 118. Blake Samic 119. Bob Rotsted 120. Bobby Wu 121. Bogo Giertler 122. Boris Power

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