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 Dario Amodei leaves OpenAI 

 by Daniel Kokotajlo 29th Dec 2020 1 min read 13 69

 This is a linkpost for https://openai.com/blog/organizational-update/ 

 “We are incredibly thankful to Dario for his contributions over the past four and a half years. We wish him and his co-founders all the best in their new project, and we look forward to a collaborative relationship with them for years to come,” said OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.

 Anyone know what the new project is?

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 New Comment Submit 13 comments , sorted by top scoring Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 10:04 PM [ - ] gwern 5y 27 0 /r/MLScaling discussion .

 Reply [ - ] adamShimi 5y 23 0 This, and the fact that Chris Olah and Jack Clark are also leaving, makes me update towards OpenAI having more of a negative impact on AI risk. My biggest uncertainty for this update depend on what happens with Christiano and his team.

 Reply [ - ] Ofer 5y 28 0 Yesterday Paul Christiano announced that he left OpenAI.

 Reply [ - ] adamShimi 5y 11 0 Thanks for the info! I'm definitely left wondering what AI Alignment research is left at OpenAI, and whether it will have any impact on their AGI research.

 Reply [ - ] ESRogs 5y 19 0 I'm definitely left wondering what AI Alignment research is left at OpenAI

 You may be interested to know that Jan Leike recently joined OpenAI and will lead their alignment team.

 Reply [ - ] Bird Concept 1y 13 13 Interesting thread to return to, 4 years later. 

 Reply [ - ] catherio 5y 15 0 It's not just Dario, it's a larger subset of OpenAI splitting off: "He and a handful of OpenAI colleagues are planning a new project, which they tell us will probably focus less on product development and more on research. We support their move and we’re grateful for the time we’ve spent working together."

 Reply [ - ] Neel Nanda 5y 19 0 Jack Clark and Chris Olah announced on Twitter that they're also leaving

 Reply [ - ] Ben Pace 5y * 19 0 Interested to know if Paul's team and Chris Olah's team and Jan Leike's team/project are moving with.

 Reply [ - ] Nisan 5y 10 0 Gwern reports that Tom Brown, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, and Ben Mann have also left.

 Reply [ - ] Nisan 5y 13 0 Also Jacob Jackson left, saying his new project is same.energy .

 Reply [ - ] Nisan 5y 7 0 Also Daniela Amodei, Nicholas Joseph, and Amanda Askell apparently left in December, January, and February, according to their LinkedIn profiles.

 Reply [ - ] Nisan 5y 20 0 Ah, 90% of the people discussed on this post are now wor

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