OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says He’s ‘Genuinely Embarrassed’ By The Company’s Previous Exit Paperwork
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On Friday, following the departure of several high profileOpenAI employees, a Vox story revealed that OpenAI employees are required to sign a restrictive off-boarding agreement. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that some part of the agreement should have never happened and it’s ‘one of the few times I’ve been genuinely embarrassed running OpenAI.”The agreement includes both nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions that forbid them from criticizing OpenAI for the remainder of their lives, or admitting they signed an NDA in the first place. The penalty of not signing the agreement or breaking it includes the former employee losing all their vested equity in the company.“We have never clawed back anyone’s vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don’t agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop,” Altman said in a post Saturday on X.”there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in our previous exit docs; although we never clawed anything back, it should never have been something we had in any documents or communication. this is on me and one of the few times I’ve been genuinely embarrassed running openai; i did not know this was happening and i should have.”Altman went on to say that the company has been revamping its exit paperwork and that “any former employee who signed one of those old agreements is worried about it, they can contact me and we’ll fix that too. very sorry about this.”
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OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, Iiya Sutskever departure the company last week as well as Jan Like, who was co-team leader of the company’s super alignment team with Sutskever.
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