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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he will be leaving the Microsoft-backed company and join Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup funded by Amazon.
The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a hyper-alignment group focused on trying to ensure that humans can control AI systems that exceed human capabilities in many tasks.
Schulman co-led the OpenAI post-training team that improved artificial intelligence models for the ChatGPT chatbot and a programming interface for third-party developers, according to a biography of him. Website. In June, OpenAI he said Schulman, as head of alignment science, would sit on a safety and security committee that would advise the board. Schulman has only worked on OpenAI since receiving his Ph.D. in computer science in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley.
“This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment and begin a new chapter in my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” Schulman wrote in post on social media.
He said he wasn’t leaving because of a lack of support for new work on the topic at OpenAI.
“On the contrary, company leaders are very committed to investing in this area,” he said.
Superalignment team leaders Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever both left this year. Leike joined Anthropic, while Sutskever said he was helping start a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Since OpenAI staff members founded Anthropic in 2021, the two San Francisco-based start-ups have been battling to have the most efficient generative AI models that can generate human-like text. Amazon, Google and Meta have also developed large language models.
“So excited to work together again!” Leike wrote in response in Shulman’s message.
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, said in one Position in his own view that Schulman’s perspective informed the startup’s early strategy.
Schulman and others opted to leave after the board ousted Altman as chief last November. Employees protested the decision, prompting Sutskever and two other board members, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, to resign. Altman was reinstated and OpenAI took on additional board members.
Toner said to a podcast that Altman had given the board incorrect information about “the small number of formal safety procedures the company had in place.”
The law firm WilmerHale found in an independent review that the board was not concerned about product safety when it ousted Altman.
Last week, Altman told X that OpenAI is “working with the US Artificial Intelligence Security Institute on an agreement where we will provide early access to the next foundational model so we can work together to advance the science of AI assessments.” Altman said OpenAI is still committed to keeping 20 percent of its computing resources for security initiatives.
Also on Monday, Greg Brockman, another OpenAI co-founder and its president, announced that he was taking Saturday for the rest of the year.
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