Helen Toner, a former Openai board member, said Meta will begin to see other companies trying to poach the newly introduced AI talent.
Toner, who left Openai's board of directors in November 2023, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday that Meta needs to show that he is “moving fast enough” on the field to maintain new AI employment.
Toner added that Meta “will get attempts to poach them to other companies from day one.”
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But Toner told Bloomberg that it's “difficult” for Meta to be successful in new AI employment.
“There's a lot of organizational politics,” she continued.
Toner said the challenges Meta faced were not only procuring resources, but managing the ego.
“It takes a lot of motivation to stare at the powerful people within your company. They probably don't want to tell them that you don't actually want to do what they want,” Toner said.
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“The problem is that if this is his big personal project, Zuckerberg can be marked. It's enough to change the dynamics of the organization,” she added.
Toner wasn't the only one who criticised Meta's recruitment efforts.
Openai CEO Sam Altman said he felt it was “crazy” that Meta offered employees a $100 million signature bonus.
“It's a lot of pre-guaranteed comp strategies, and why you say you want someone to join. It's actually just the level of focusing on it, not the work, and not the mission, and I don't think it's going to set a great culture.”
Toner previously voted to fire Altman as CEO of Openai in November 2023. At the time, Openai's board of directors said that Altman was “not consistently open in his communications with them,” but did not provide details. Altman finally returned as CEO a few days later.
In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Toner said she hasn't “actually interacted with” Altman since her brief banishment from the opening.
“I'm sure I'll be caught up in the same event soon. The AI world is pretty small and I'm sure they're happy to wave each other's hands, but so far I haven't had a chance yet,” Toner said.
Representatives from Toner and Meta did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
