I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today:

I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I'm most interested in. To be clear, I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career.

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TechCrunch notes that only three of the eleven original founders of OpenAI remain at [...]

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First published:
August 6th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6C7fDMSBTRnEPgy6s/john-schulman-leaves-openai-for-anthropic

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