The group is now the subject of an employee letter seeking their removal.

GM’s self-driving car division was once one of the bright spots in the tenure of CEO Mary Barra. Now both of its co-founders have quit and it is grappling to rebound from alarming mishaps.

The Twitch co-founder is a vocal critic of efforts to rush the development of new, powerful artificial intelligence tools.

More than 700 employees have threatened to resign from the company if the current board doesn’t resign and reinstate former CEO Sam Altman.

The company has set a goal to train two million people in AI as the fight for skilled workers ramps up with Microsoft and Google.

After Altman’s bid to return to the AI company was unsuccessful, Microsoft said that he would lead a new advanced AI research team at the tech giant.