Following the recent resignations, OpenAI has opted to dissolve the ‘Superalignment’ team and integrate its functions into other research projects within the organization.
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI have either resigned or been reportedly absorbed into other research groups.
Days after Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, announced his departure, Jan Leike, the former DeepMind researcher who was OpenAI’s super alignment team’s other co-lead, posted on X that he had resigned.
According to Leike, his departure from the company was due to his worries about its priorities, which he thinks are more focused on product development than AI safety.
