OpenAI Employees Demand Resignation of the Board of Directors 【ChatGPT Rates OpenAI Drama 7.3】- On Friday, November 17 (US time), OpenAI announced the firing of CEO Sam Altman. During the subsequent all-hands meeting, an employee asked OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever if this was a coup, to which he replied, “You could say that, but I think it’s just the board of directors doing their duty.