OpenAI leadership responds to former employee safety claims

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, CEO and President of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, recently visited X.com to publicly discuss the recent departure of Jan Leike, the company’s former chief safety officer.

As Cointelegraph recently reported, Leike was responsible for sorting. He resigned from his position on May 17, citing irreconcilable differences with the company’s management.

Among Leike’s claims was that at OpenAI, “safety culture and processes took a back seat to shiny products.”

It didn’t take long for Brockman and Altman to respond, both responding to X.com within 24 hours of Leike’s post.

For his part, Brockman put together a long, winding post filled with three strategies for aligning his company’s safety.

He began by thanking Leike for his work at the company before disputing claims that OpenAI was not focused on safety.

“First, we raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI,” Brockman said, noting that the company “called for international governance of AGI before such calls became popular.”

“Second, we have laid the foundation needed to securely deploy increasingly capable systems. Figuring out how to make a new technology safe the first time is not easy.”

The final part of Brockman’s lecture is, “The future will be more difficult than the past. “We must continue to strengthen our safety work to match the risks of each new model.”

He also hinted that the company isn’t following the big tech prescription of moving fast and disrupting things. He said, “As we build in this direction, we are not yet sure when we will reach safety standards for release, and we are OK with this delaying our release schedule.”

Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman kept his message short, but noted that he would have more to say on the topic in the future.

“He’s right.” “We have more work to do,” Altman said, referring to Leike’s comments. We are doing our best to make that happen.”

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