Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety leader Jan Leike as a new team member.
- Anthropic has gained a new member in the form of Jan Leike, a lead safety researcher at OpenAI who recently resigned.
- On May 14, OpenAI announced the dissolution of the superalignment group that Leike co-led, just days before he resigned from the company.
Anthropic has gained a new member in the form of Jan Leike, a lead safety researcher at OpenAI who recently resigned from the company.
On May 15, Leike announced his resignation from OpenAI, just days before the company dissolved the superalignment group he co-led. This team, formed in 2023, focused on long-term AI risks. Meanwhile, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced his departure in a post on X on May 14.
"Leike announced on X that he is thrilled to join AnthropicAI to continue the superalignment mission. His new team will focus on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research."
Anthropic has secured up to $4 billion in funding from a company that has committed to a minority stake in the company.
Leike wrote that leaving OpenAI was one of the hardest things he has ever done, as he believes we urgently need to develop smarter AI systems that can control themselves.
The emergence of ChatGPT by OpenAI in late 2022 has led to a surge in the importance of AI safety in the tech sector. However, some industry experts have raised concerns about the speed at which companies are releasing powerful AI products to the public, without fully considering the potential societal harm they may cause.
OpenAI, backed by , announced on Tuesday the formation of a new safety and security committee led by senior executives, including CEO Sam Altman. The committee will provide safety and security recommendations to the company's board for OpenAI projects and operations.
Claude 3, a ChatGPT rival launched by Anthropic in March, has received funding from Amazon, as well as other investors including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
WATCH: Anthropic co-founder on AI adoption
Technology
You might also like
- A major CVS shareholder is planning an activist push and will meet with management, according to sources.
- It's crucial to heed warnings about using public Wi-Fi in places like airports.
- Flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern U.S.
- In a San Francisco all-female hacker house, a group of women are working together to break new ground in the tech industry.
- Elon Musk's X will be reinstated in Brazil after settling an additional penalty.