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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Miles Brundage, Former Head of OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Team, Departs to Focus on Independent Research and Advocacy
Oct 25, 2024 at 03:22 am
Long-time OpenAI safety researcher Miles Brundage will start or join another artificial intelligence firm after quitting his position as head of “AGI Readiness” and leaving the company on Oct. 23.
OpenAI safety researcher Miles Brundage is set to leave the company on Oct. 23 and will either start or join another artificial intelligence firm.
Brundage, who joined OpenAI in 2018 as a researcher, has served as the company's top safety officer. In a Substack post discussing his departure, he claimed that OpenAI’s “AGI Readiness” team will be disbanded, potentially leaving the firm without a dedicated safety department.
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a theoretical paradigm wherein an AI model would be capable of performing any task a human could do if given the same resources. Brundage’s team's primary purpose appeared to be providing policy suggestions and safety oversight for the company's continuing development toward AGI.
His exit, according to the post, was prompted by the desire to focus on independent research and advocacy. He cited several reasons for his departure including the desire to “be less biased” toward his corporate setting, and to seek opportunities through either entrepreneurship or at a different organization.
Per Brundage:
“I joined OpenAI four years ago with the goal of helping humanity safely navigate the path to AGI. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have worked with an amazing team on this incredibly important and challenging problem. While I believe that OpenAI is making valuable contributions to this goal, I've decided to leave the company to pursue my own path in independent research and advocacy.”
The researcher might not be out of a job for long, however, as he's already made a potential business connection with Brendan McCord, founder and Chief of Cosmos Institute, an organization dedicated to developing technology with a humanist approach.
A potential business connection on X.com. Source Miles Brundage, Brendan McCord
The significance of Brundage's departure from OpenAI remains unclear. Cointelegraph reached out to OpenAI and was given the following statement:
“We can confirm that Miles Brundage will be leaving OpenAI on Oct. 23. We appreciate his contributions to the company and wish him well in his future endeavors.”
The company declined to respond to Cointelegraph's questions concerning the future of the AGI Readiness team.
OpenAI's employee exodus began prior to the creation of the AGI Readiness team, with the company's primary AGI oversight department being the “Superalignment” team co-led by company cofounders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike.
That team was disbanded after Leike left the company in May, claiming he’d reached his “breaking point” after disagreements with management. Sutskever quit the firm the next month and has since gone on to found his own competing artificial intelligence company already valued at an estimated $5 billion.
OpenAI had already lost co-founder and chief scientist Andrej Karpathy by this point, who'd left to start his own company in February. Another co-founder, John Schulman, called it quits in August to join competitor Anthropic. Meanwhile, former chief technology officer Mira Murati is reportedly raising funds to start a competing artificial intelligence company as well.
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