As AI becomes more capable, I'm focused on questions around the pace and implications of progress, and how they should inform the strategy of OpenAI and across the field. I asked Aleksander to come back to OpenAI to work with me on these topics. I value his judgment and am glad to have him on the team again.
Personal update: Turns out that what I thought was leaving OpenAI became more of a sabbatical.View quoted post on X
When I left a few months ago, I felt that the most important thing to focus on was making AI more useful to people. But we’ve since entered a different regime of AI progress. One in which getting the safety and security challenges of increasingly capable AI right has to become a central priority.
So I’ll be returning to OpenAI, joining @merettm to help chart a path through these challenges.
There’s much work to do, so let’s get going.
