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Resigned from OpenAI criticizing company for prioritizing 'shiny products' over AI safety
May 17, 2024 → OpenAI
Jan Leike, OpenAI's Head of Alignment and Superalignment co-lead, resigned and publicly criticized the company. He stated that 'safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products' and that his team had been 'sailing against the wind,' struggling for compute resources for crucial safety research. He said he had been 'disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we reached a breaking point.'