This comes as OpenAI, originally a nonprofit, transitions to a for-profit company, a move that has been questioned by some former employees as compromising the company's mission. OpenAI has increased its sales staff by about 100 since June to capitalize on a "paradigm shift" toward AI. CEO Sam Altman has defended the changes, stating that they will help the company attract the capital it needs to meet its goals, including developing artificial general intelligence that benefits humanity.
Key takeaways:
- Rosie Campbell, a safety researcher at OpenAI, has announced her resignation from the company, citing the disbandment of the AGI Readiness team as one of the reasons.
- The AGI Readiness team, which was headed by Miles Brundage who resigned in October, advised the company on the world's capacity to safely manage AGI, a theoretical version of AI that could equal or surpass human intelligence.
- OpenAI, which was originally launched as a nonprofit dedicated to creating artificial general intelligence, announced in September that it was transitioning to a for-profit company, a move that has been questioned by some former employees.
- Several high-profile researchers, including cofounder Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, and John Schulman, have left OpenAI over the past year, expressing concerns about the company's commitment to safety.