Just three months ago, Murati found herself at the center of hot debate after appearing to stoke fears around generative AI and its perceived threat to the creative industry. During an address at Dartmouth College, the CTO claimed: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
The remarks came off the back of a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by a group of eight newspapers – The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register, St Paul Pioneer-Press, Orlando Sentinel, and South Florida Sun Sentinel – in April this year.
Elsewhere, she has proved indispensable to the startup since joining as a researcher in 2018, championing the possibilities of AI even in the face of mounting criticism. During her tenure, she has overseen the launches of ChatGPT, Dall-E, Codex, and Sora, and even briefly took over as CEO after Sam Altman was fired by the board. He was reinstated five days later.
