A group of current and former open AI employees has issued a public letter warning that the company and its rivals are building artificial intelligence with undue risk and without sufficient oversight.

They're calling on leading artificial intelligence companies to be more transparent

and provide stronger protections for whistleblowers.

It comes after Open AI disbanded its team focused on long-term AI risks and two leaders of that group have resigned.

We're joined now by NPR Technology correspondent, Bobby Allen, who's been covering all of these developments

and more.

Bobby, thanks for being with us.

So tell us more about who is behind this open letter

and what specifically they're asking for.

Yeah, it's a number of current and former open AI employees.

I actually spoke to one of them just today and what

they're saying is really loud and clear they think open AI is too aggressively in

search of profits and market share

and that they are not focused on responsibly

developing AI products.

And remember, this is really important, Jeff,

because Open AI started as a nonprofit research

lab that was its aim when it was founded was to develop AI products different than, say, Meta or Microsoft or Amazon which are these huge

publicly traded companies that are competing with one another right open AI

was supposed to be a nonprofit-profit answer to big tech.

And these employees say, look, it looks like you're operating

just like big tech.

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