At least one of them has explicitly indicated they left because of AI safety concerns, and this thread seems to be insinuating some concern—Ilya Sutskever’s conspicuous silence has become a meme, and Altman recently expressed that he is uncertain of Ilya’s employment status. There still hasn’t been any explanation for the boardroom drama last year.
If it was indeed run-of-the-mill office politics and all was well, then something to the effect of “our departures were unrelated, don’t be so anxious about the world ending, we didn’t see anything alarming at OpenAI” would obviously help a lot of people and also be a huge vote of confidence for OpenAI.
It seems more likely that there is some (vague?) concern but it’s been overridden by tremendous legal/financial/peer motivations.
At least one of them has explicitly indicated they left because of AI safety concerns, and this thread seems to be insinuating some concern—Ilya Sutskever’s conspicuous silence has become a meme, and Altman recently expressed that he is uncertain of Ilya’s employment status. There still hasn’t been any explanation for the boardroom drama last year.
If it was indeed run-of-the-mill office politics and all was well, then something to the effect of “our departures were unrelated, don’t be so anxious about the world ending, we didn’t see anything alarming at OpenAI” would obviously help a lot of people and also be a huge vote of confidence for OpenAI.
It seems more likely that there is some (vague?) concern but it’s been overridden by tremendous legal/financial/peer motivations.