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Jan Leike, one of many lead security researchers at OpenAI who resigned from the bogus intelligence firm earlier this month, stated on Tuesday that he has joined rival AI startup Anthropic.
Leike introduced his resignation from OpenAI early on Could 15, days earlier than the corporate dissolved the superalignment group that he co-led. That group, fashioned in 2023, centered on long-term AI dangers. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever introduced his departure in a put up on X on Could 14.
“I am excited to hitch @AnthropicAI to proceed the superalignment mission,” Leike wrote on X on Tuesday. “My new group will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automatic alignment analysis.”
Anthropic is backed by Amazon, which has dedicated as much as $4 billion in funding for a minority stake within the firm.
In a put up following his departure from OpenAI, Leike wrote, “Stepping away from this job has been one of many hardest issues I’ve ever carried out, as a result of we urgently want to determine tips on how to steer and management AI methods a lot smarter than us.”
AI security has gained speedy significance throughout the tech sector since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, ushering in a growth in generative AI merchandise and investments. Some within the trade have expressed concern that corporations are shifting too rapidly in releasing highly effective AI merchandise to the general public with out adequately contemplating potential societal hurt.
Microsoft-backed Open AI stated Tuesday that it created a brand new security and safety committee led by senior executives, together with CEO Sam Altman. The committee will suggest “security and safety selections for OpenAI tasks and operations” to the corporate’s board.
Anthropic, based in 2021 by siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei and different ex-OpenAI executives, launched its ChatGPT rival Claude 3 in March. The corporate has acquired funding from Google, Salesforce and Zoom, along with funding from Amazon.
