The Washington Post reportedOpenAI used unfair terms to require internal employees not to disclose its artificial intelligence security risks to the outside world.
This situation has been sued to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the seven-page report mentioned that OpenAI used inappropriate terms to restrict employees from leaving or transferring.
Prior to this, an OpenAI employee had said that if they chose to resign, they must sign a confidentiality agreement within 60 days, otherwise they would have to give up their OpenAI shares. The time was even shortened from 60 days to 7 days, and the terms were changed to allow them to retain their shares but not sell them for cash.
However, after the relevant news was reported, OpenAI apparently began to take remedial measures, including abolishing the unfair terms, allowing former employees to retain their equity and not restricting them from discussing internal company matters. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also emphasized that no equity holdings of former employees were forcibly recovered, even though former employees had signed non-disparagement agreements. However, no equity has been forcibly recovered so far.
