“The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on trying to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks.”
John Schulman was OpenAI’s head of alignment science and had worked nowhere else since his 2016 Berkeley Ph.D. He is leaving for Anthropic to “deepen my focus on AI alignment,” the same road Jan Leike took. Greg Brockman announced a sabbatical the same day. Sam Altman says 20% of compute still goes to safety, while the people who would spend it keep walking out.