The internal strife within OpenAI has been dragging on for quite some time, leading to the dissolution of the AI Alignment team and dispersing its members among other teams. They claim it's for deeper integration into these teams, but they've lost their leading researchers in safety. I reckon the iterations will speed up from now on, and the marketing frenzy around GPT feels even more intense.
Many people left OpenAI after the board problem and Altman’s return. Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Pavel Izmailov, William Saunders, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Cullen O’Keefe left because of safety worries. Chris Clark, the planning director, and Sherry Lachman, the social impact director, also left recently.
Today’s result shows that Ilya Sutskever and Sam Altman’s group have big differences they cannot fix.
Additionally, recent departures include Chris Clark, the non-profit organization and strategic planning director, and Sherry Lachman, the social impact director.
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