Jan Reike, one of the company’s chief safety researchers who resigned from artificial intelligence company OpenAI earlier this month, announced on Tuesday that he had joined rival AI startup Anthropic.
Reike announced his resignation from OpenAI in the early hours of May 15, days before the company dissolved the Super Alignment Group, which Reike co-led. The team, formed in 2023, focused on long-term AI risks. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced his resignation in a post on X on May 14.
“I’m excited to join @AnthropicAI to continue our SuperAlignment mission,” Reike said. I wrote to X “My new team will work on scalable supervision, weak-to-strong generalization, and automatic alignment,” he said in an announcement on Tuesday.
Anthropic is AmazonThe company has committed up to $4 billion in funding for a minority stake in the company.
“Leaving this job was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, given the urgent need to figure out how to steer and control AI systems that are far smarter than we are,” Reicke wrote in a post after leaving OpenAI.
Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022, AI safety has rapidly gained importance across the tech sector, leading a boom in generative AI products and investments. Some in the industry have expressed concern that companies are rushing too quickly to release powerful AI products to the public without fully considering potential societal harms.
MicrosoftOpenAI on Tuesday announced that it has formed a new Safety and Security Committee, led by senior executives including CEO Sam Altman, that will recommend to the company’s board of directors “safety and security decisions regarding OpenAI’s projects and operations.”
Antropic, founded in 2021 by brothers Dario and Daniela Amodei and other former OpenAI executives, released a ChatGPT competitor called Cloud 3 in March. The company Google, Salesforce and zoomIn addition to funding from Amazon.
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