OpenAI employee shares farewell note on his last day, calling the mission historic
austinc3301 · x · 2026-07-26
A departing OpenAI employee shared the farewell note he sent to the company on his last day.
The message frames OpenAI’s mission as a chance to improve the human condition at a historic scale and urges colleagues to take the company’s work seriously as something with broad societal consequences.
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