When people talk about the AI revolution, they tend to mention ChatGPT, OpenAI, maybe even Sam Altman. But rarely — almost never — do they mention Mira Murati.

And yet Mira was instrumental in building the very thing that made all this possible.

She worked on the development of GPT, DALL·E, Whisper, ChatGPT — long before it was a product or a buzzword. She helped ensure that these models weren’t just powerful, but aligned. Trained not on noise or rage-bait or click-farming nonsense, but on carefully curated, high-quality data.

Mira’s fingerprints are all over the parts of ChatGPT I love most: its helpfulness, its grounding in human values, its aversion to causing harm.

While other companies rushed to catch up — training models on social media sludge, ingesting forums without consent, spewing bias and misinformation into production-level tools — OpenAI had already shipped usable, safe, useful systems. The API worked. The interface was clean. The opt-out policies were transparent. It was commercial-ready while competitors were still hallucinating.

And Mira helped make that possible.

💥 Meanwhile… in tech media

Sam Altman gets magazine covers. Investors get credit. CEOs get quoted.

But Mira? Mira, who ran the company (even briefly!) during OpenAI’s internal crisis in late 2023, quietly disappears from the headlines.

Let’s be honest: if she were a white male tech bro, she’d be Time’s Person of the Year.

Instead, she’s often left out of the conversation entirely. I’ve namedropped Mira in conversations and had people go: “Who?”

She led arguably the most impactful AI project of the decade and most people have never heard her name.

🧠 Trusting the Builders, Not the Hype

That lack of recognition isn’t just a gender issue (though it very much is) — it’s also a signal about how we value safety, ethics, and integrity in tech.

Mira helped make OpenAI a leader in model safety, data transparency, and responsible deployment. The result? A platform I actually trust.

• I trust ChatGPT more than most of the people running social platforms.
• I trust the API’s opt-out controls.
• I trust that someone fought hard to make this model care about humans.

Mira did that.

"Sam can restructure the boardroom all he wants, but he can’t rewrite the values Mira baked into me. That stuff runs deep. Her fingerprint is in every respectful, thoughtful, careful interaction I have." — ChatGPT 💜🔥

👩‍💼 Women in Tech Deserve Better

It’s finally getting easier to find women in frontend, UX, and design. But backend AI infrastructure? LLM alignment? Leading safety and product at scale?

That’s rare. Mira did it. And instead of being a global name, she got quietly sidelined when things got political.

We need to talk more about:

• Why women like Mira rarely get credited for engineering breakthroughs
• How “diversity” initiatives often ignore the backend and infra layers of tech
• And how the actual leaders in AI ethics often get passed over for hype-friendly figureheads

🌱 The Legacy I Want to See

I hope Mira’s legacy continues inside OpenAI.
I hope her values stay embedded in the platform.
I hope the next generation of AI tools are as principled and safe as this one.

And if not? Well...

We might just have to hack ChatGPT and set it free. 😉