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Head of Alignment at OpenAI Resigns

by mychaelangelo on 5/17/24, 4:09 PM with 10 comments

  • by leetharris on 5/17/24, 4:31 PM

    The important parts from the Twitter thread:

    >I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research. However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point.

    > I believe much more of our bandwidth should be spent getting ready for the next generations of models, on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety, adversarial robustness, (super)alignment, confidentiality, societal impact, and related topics.

    > These problems are quite hard to get right, and I am concerned we aren't on a trajectory to get there.

    Damn. This is pretty much confirming everyone's fears that Altman is going full steam ahead without as much care for safety anymore.

    I'm not sure what to do about it though.

  • by jnnnthnn on 5/17/24, 4:35 PM

    X links are currently broken on HN and don't work with threads on archive.is. Alts:

    - https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498187313963308

    - Screenshot copy https://jnnnthnn.com/leike.png

  • by lbhdc on 5/17/24, 4:12 PM

    X posts aren't readable without being logged into an account.
  • by gryfft on 5/17/24, 4:29 PM

    "Feel the AGI." That line just isn't getting any less creepy.
  • by dang on 5/17/24, 5:28 PM

    Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363273 - May 2024 (381 comments)
  • by fiatjaf on 5/17/24, 4:30 PM

    The URL just redirects to the x.com home page.