Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign from OpenAI, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on May 15, 2024 on LessWrong.

Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike have resigned. They led OpenAI's alignment work. Superalignment will now be led by John Schulman, it seems. Jakub Pachocki replaced Sutskever as Chief Scientist.

Reasons are unclear (as usual when safety people leave OpenAI).

The NYT piece and others I've seen don't really have details. Archive of NYT if you want to read it anyway.

OpenAI announced Sutskever's departure in a blogpost.

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