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Sharon Goldman, Jeremy Kahn

Top OpenAI researcher resigns, saying company prioritized 'shiny products' over AI safety

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Jan Leike, OpenAI’s head of alignment whose team focused on AI safety, has resigned from the company, saying that over the past years, “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” 

In a post on X, the former Twitter, Leike added that he had been “disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until we reached a breaking point.” 

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