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OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?

Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding?

But the product release of ChatGPT 4o was quickly overshadowed by much bigger news out of OpenAI: the resignation of the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, who also led its superalignment team, as well as that of his co-team leader Jan Leike (who we put on the Future Perfect 50 list last year). All of this is highly ironic for a company that initially advertised itself as Open AI — that is, as committed in its mission statements to building powerful systems in a transparent and accountable manner. “Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems,” a recruitment page for Leike and Sutskever’s team at OpenAI states.

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