Dario Amodei leaves OpenAI

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29th Dec 2020

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This is a linkpost for https://openai.com/blog/organizational-update/

“We are incredibly thankful to Dario for his contributions over the past four and a half years. We wish him and his co-founders all the best in their new project, and we look forward to a collaborative relationship with them for years to come,” said OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.

Anyone know what the new project is?

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[-]gwern4y270

/r/MLScaling discussion.

[-]adamShimi4y230

This, and the fact that Chris Olah and Jack Clark are also leaving, makes me update towards OpenAI having more of a negative impact on AI risk. My biggest uncertainty for this update depend on what happens with Christiano and his team.

[-]Ofer4y280

Yesterday Paul Christiano announced that he left OpenAI.

[-]adamShimi4y110

Thanks for the info! I'm definitely left wondering what AI Alignment research is left at OpenAI, and whether it will have any impact on their AGI research.

[-]ESRogs4y190

I'm definitely left wondering what AI Alignment research is left at OpenAI

You may be interested to know that Jan Leike recently joined OpenAI and will lead their alignment team.

[-]jacobjacob3mo1212

Interesting thread to return to, 4 years later.

[-]catherio4y150

It's not just Dario, it's a larger subset of OpenAI splitting off: "He and a handful of OpenAI colleagues are planning a new project, which they tell us will probably focus less on product development and more on research. We support their move and we’re grateful for the time we’ve spent working together."

[-]Neel Nanda4y190

Jack Clark and Chris Olah announced on Twitter that they're also leaving

[-]Ben Pace4y190

Interested to know if Paul's team and Chris Olah's team and Jan Leike's team/project are moving with.

[-]Nisan4y100

Gwern reports that Tom Brown, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, and Ben Mann have also left.

[-]Nisan4y130

Also Jacob Jackson left, saying his new project is same.energy.

[-]Nisan4y70

Also Daniela Amodei, Nicholas Joseph, and Amanda Askell apparently left in December, January, and February, according to their LinkedIn profiles.

[-]Nisan3y200

Ah, 90% of the people discussed on this post are now working for Anthropic, along with a few other ex-OpenAI safety people.

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