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Surely the employees knew before joining that OpenAI is a non-profit aiming to develop safe AGI?
by peanuty1 3y ago
Surely the employees knew before joining that OpenAI is a non-profit aiming to develop safe AGI?
- alexgartrell 3y agoOpenAI's recruiting pitch was 5-10+ million/year in the form of equity. The structure of the grants is super weird by traditional big-company standards, but it was plausible enough that you could squint and call it the same. I'd posit that many of the people jumping to OpenAI are doing it for the cash and not the mission. https://the-decoder.com/openai-lures-googles-top-ai-researchers-with-multimillion-dollar-offers/#:~:text=OpenAI's%20recruiters%20are%20targeting%20senior,Information%20reported%2C%20citing%20insider%20sources https://the-decoder.com/openai-lures-googles-top-ai-research....
- sgift 3y agoThey thought so. Now, they know that instead they work for one aiming to satisfy the ego of a specific group of people - same as everywhere else.