Within hours of Leike’s tweets on May 17, another tweet was going viral. Kelsey Piper, a senior writer at Vox for the EA-inspired section Future Perfect, had posted a new story. “When you leave OpenAI, you get an unpleasant surprise,” she wrote in her tweet sharing the scoop, “a departure deal where if you don’t sign a lifelong nondisparagement commitment, you lose all of your vested equity.”
