Leaked OpenAI Docs Show Sam Altman Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Clawing back vested equity — in short, the amount of company ownership that an employee has gained through their months or years of working there — is a highly unusual practice to begin with.

  This is especially true in the startup-powered Silicon Valley, where tech workers often forgo high salaries in favor of equity agreements based on the hope that they’ll get rich later when a successful startup like OpenAI eventually goes public.

  In response to the Vox report, Altman apologetically took to X-formerly-Twitter to admit that yes, “there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in our previous exit docs.”

  Outside of forgery, there are only two plausible reasons for Altman’s alleged lack of knowledge: either he didn’t fully read the employment contracts he was signing or he was lying.

  “For a company to threaten to claw back already-vested equity is egregious and unusual,” Chambord Benton-Hayes, a California employment law attorney, told Vox.

  Meanwhile, recent departures have ground OpenAI’s “Superalignment” safety team — the ones tasked with making sure a killer AI doesn’t obliterate humankind — into dust.

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