My guess is that at least some of them are worried about shipping products and making profit, and agreed with the growth faction?

Perhaps they don’t want to work for a board of directors which is openly hostile to the work they’re doing?

Because they want stock options for a for-profit company.

A lot of them have already left this morning. idk for sure why but a good bet is that they are more on board with Sam's vision of pushing forward AI than the safetyist vision.