Schulman决定离开OpenAI，前往Anthropic，以专注于AI对齐并开展新的职业生涯，此决定并非因OpenAI缺乏对对齐研究的支持，而是个人对职业生涯下一阶段的规划。

🎯Schulman离开OpenAI的原因是希望深化对AI对齐的关注，并回归到实际的技术工作中，他认为在Anthropic能获得新视角并与对相关主题感兴趣的人一起进行研究。

📋OpenAI的现状是，其11位原始创始人中仅有3位仍在公司，且公司总裁Greg Brockman正在休长假。

💡Schulman强调自己的离开并非由于OpenAI对对齐研究支持不足，相反，OpenAI公司领导一直致力于在该领域进行投资，他的决定是基于个人对职业生涯下一阶段的规划。

Published on August 6, 2024 1:23 AM GMT

Schulman writes:

I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: 

I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I'm most interested in. To be clear, I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career.

(statement continues on X, Altman responds here)

TechCrunch notes that only three of the eleven original founders of OpenAI remain at the company. 

Additionally, The Information reports:

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.

(I figured that there should be at least one post about this on LW where people can add information as more comes in, saw that no one has made one yet, and wrote this one up) 

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