Jan Leike leaves OpenAI to join rival Anthropic

Security culture remained in the background


Jan Leike, one of the important names who left OpenAI with a surprise last week, joined rival Anthropic today. passed.

A prominent OpenAI researcher Jan Leike, made a splash not with his decision to leave, but rather with his statement during the separation process. In a post within the scope of his resignation decision found Leike said of his former company, “Security culture and processes take a backseat to remarkable new products” he said, meaning he made an open criticism. This statement is dedicated to addressing long-term AI risks from OpenAI “Superalignment” He came after disbanding his team. Now focusing more on products that impact people and OpenAI seems to be starting to push the possible risks of artificial intelligence into the backgroundcurrently actively working on the next level, artificial general intelligence (AGI) It is also working on this level, and that level must be put into operation with very strong protection systems. In this regard Jan Leike, “OpenAI must become a security-first AGI company” he said. Today, OpenAI has switched to Anthropic, one of its important competitors. announcing Leike, in his new company “Superalignment” In other words, it will continue its security/risk-oriented artificial intelligence studies.

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In case you missed it, the OpenAI Board of Directors today Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman and company CEO Sam Altman led by a “Safety and Security” announced that they formed the board. According to the statement, this team will work with the board of directors and make important decisions regarding the security of OpenAI projects/systems.

Within the scope of this statement, the company also announced that they have started training the new LLM, or large language model, which will most likely be named GPT-5. With this system, the company achieves its biggest goal: aims to get one step closer to artificial general intelligence. Artificial general intelligence is summarized as the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any mental task that a human can do.

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