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Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher
A group of OpenAI researchers ensuring that a future AGI system does not pose catastrophic or even existential danger has been decimated.
I think it’s just people sort of individually giving up,” Kokotajlo said, as OpenAI continues to shift toward a product and commercial focus, with less emphasis on research designed to figure out how to ensure AGI can be developed safely. In recent months, OpenAI hired Sarah Friar as CFO and Kevin Weil as chief product officer, and last week the company brought on former Meta executive Irina Kofman to head up strategic initiatives. “In some sense, this is a betrayal of the plan that we had as of 2022,” Kokotajlo told Fortune, pointing to what he called an effort by OpenAI and across the AI industry to evaluate the long-term risks of AGI and get voluntary commitments about how to react to dangerous thresholds being crossed, and use those results as “inspiration and a template for legislation and regulation.”
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