OpenAI employees want everyone to know Sam Altman is totally receptive to pushback
OpenAI staffers and formers defended CEO Sam Altman's ability to accept feedback or pushback.One ex-employee wrote on X that Altman was "receptive to internal disagreement and critique, for better or worse."The staffers responded to a since-deleted post that described a poor interview experience.OpenAI employees are coming out in support of their CEO, saying that, yes, he's actually very receptive to critical feedback.Eric Mitchell, who co-leads OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team, wrote that there were multiple times when he "directly disagreed with, corrected, or expressed frustration with leadership to Sam.""Sam always responded with curiosity, open-mindedness, and even deference when I've brought disagreement/complaint/correction to him," Mitchell wrote.One such disagreement occurred during Mitchell's first six months at the company, he wrote.Mitchell and other staffers responded to a since-deleted post by Nick Huber, an AI product leader. According to screenshots of the post, Huber described an interview with OpenAI where an interviewer asked him to use data to test a belief purportedly held by Altman.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider or confirm whether Huber had been interviewed by the company.
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OpenAI staffers and formers defended CEO Sam Altman's ability to accept feedback or pushback.One ex-employee wrote on X that Altman was "receptive to internal disagreement and critique, for better or worse."The staffers responded to a since-deleted post that described a poor interview experience.OpenAI employees are coming out in support of their CEO, saying that, yes, he's actually very receptive to critical feedback.Eric Mitchell, who co-leads OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team, wrote that there were multiple times when he "directly disagreed with, corrected, or expressed frustration with leadership to Sam.""Sam always responded with curiosity, open-mindedness, and even deference when I've brought disagreement/complaint/correction to him," Mitchell wrote.One such disagreement occurred during Mitchell's first six months at the company, he wrote.Mitchell and other staffers responded to a since-deleted post by Nick Huber, an AI product leader. According to screenshots of the post, Huber described an interview with OpenAI where an interviewer asked him to use data to test a belief purportedly held by Altman.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider or confirm whether Huber had been interviewed by the company. Huber did not respond to a request for comment.In his post, Mitchell wrote that any claims that the company had a "culture where people are retaliated against for honest criticism of leadership" were inaccurate.In Mitchell's comments, two former staffers expressed praised Altman. Both worked on Sora, the AI video product OpenAI announced it would shut down in March."Can confirm, Sam is super receptive," wrote Gabriel Petersson, a former researcher at OpenAI and Midjourney who has since founded his own company.Will DePue left OpenAI in April.
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- OpenAI staffers and formers defended CEO Sam Altman's ability to accept feedback or pushback.One ex-employee wrote on X that Altman was "receptive to internal disagreement and critique, for better or worse."The staffers responded to a since-deleted post that described a poor interview experience.OpenAI employees are coming out in support of their CEO, saying that, yes, he's actually very receptive to critical feedback.Eric Mitchell, who co-leads OpenAI's Post-training Frontiers team, wrote that there were multiple times when he "directly disagreed with, corrected, or expressed frustration with leadership to Sam.""Sam always responded with curiosity, open-mindedness, and even deference when I've brought disagreement/complaint/correction to him," Mitchell wrote.One such disagreement occurred during Mitchell's first six months at the company, he wrote.Mitchell and other staffers responded to a since-deleted post by Nick Huber, an AI product leader. According to screenshots of the post, Huber described an interview with OpenAI where an interviewer asked him to use data to test a belief purportedly held by Altman.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider or confirm whether Huber had been interviewed by the company.
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OpenAI employees want everyone to know Sam Altman is totally receptive to pushback
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