Sam Altman.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesOpenAI's exit agreements had nondisparagement clauses threatening vested equity, Vox reported.Sam Altman said on X that the company never enforced it, and that he was unaware of the provision.The clause will be removed from future contracts, the OpenAI CEO said.OpenAI employees who left the company without signing a non-disparagement agreement could have lost vested equity if they did not comply — but the policy was never used, CEO Sam Altman said on Saturday.Vox News first reported on the exit contract terms following the high-profile exits of two AI safety researchers at the company: Superalignment co-lead Jan Leike and cofounder and former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever.Both Sutskever and Leike left on Tuesday.
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