Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new Superalignment team; a source says Leike will report to Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan
Here's What We Know Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : OpenAI forms safety and security committee as concerns mount about AI Rounak Jain / Benzinga : OpenAI Former ‘Superalignment’ Lead Joins Jeff Bezos-Backed Rival Anthropic Days After Quitting Sam Altman's Team Emma Roth / The Verge : OpenAI has a new safety team — it's run by Sam Altman Paul Hill / Neowin : Former OpenAI safety head, Jan Leike, joins rival firm Anthropic Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Former OpenAI safety lead joins rival firm Anthropic Todd Haselton / CNBC : OpenAI former safety leader Jan Leike joins rival AI startup Anthropic PYMNTS.com : Former OpenAI Safety Head Jan Leike Joins Anthropic Jyoti Mann / Business Insider : OpenAI's former executive Jan Leike joins its rival Anthropic days after quitting over safety concerns The Hill : OpenAI safety board Chris Murithi / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI Introduces Safety and Security Committee To Oversee Their AI Projects X: Jan Leike / @janleike : I'm excited to join @AnthropicAI to continue the superalignment mission! My new team will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research. If you're interested in joining, my dms are open. Avital Balwit / @avitalbalwit : Welcome to the team! The work continues 🫡 Bindu Reddy / @bindureddy : BURN! Open AI Lead Safety Researcher joins Anthropic! In case folks don't know, Anthropic was started by a team of researchers who got annoyed with OAI and left! Anthropic has done a great job when it comes to helping us understand LLMs better! I disagree with their [image] Josh / @joshuaogundu : Anthropic has hired one of the co founders of Instagram as their CPO and now is hiring ex OpenAI folks..they're up to something Leon Lang / @lang__leon : I'm glad this work continues. At the same time, I *also* hope that superalignment will not become the organizational strategy of Anthropic; Anthropic is more pessimistic and uncertain in their views on AI Safety than OpenAI, which is a useful counterperspective that should stay @kipperrii : i don't know if i'm supposed to say this but anthropic has had a weekly “dress up as jan leike” day for the past year to generate good luck in our alignment research Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : New from me: Less than two weeks ago, @janleike quit his role as co-leader of @OpenAI's superalignment team just after @ilyasut resigned. that team was then dissolved. Today, Leike said he has a new role — at OpenAI rival @AnthropicAI. Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : OpenAI's former leader of its now defunct superalignment team, Jan Leike, announces he's joining Anthropic after voicing his concerns about OpenAI's commitment to safety Yanco / @the_yanco : I would have felt better if @janleike would join in Joshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton in their quest to educate people about potential dangers of Super-powerful AI systems. The stars weren't quite “aligned” I guess.. Melinda B. Chu / @melindabchu1 : Least surprising announcement ever. All the Effective Altruists in one company. Good. 😆 Parmy Olson / @parmy : Anthropic is beating OpenAI in one of the most important areas of the field - attracting top talent. They've just picked up OpenAI's former head of safety Jan Leike and prior to that, hired Instagram's co-founder Mike Krieger as their new head of product. @menloventures : We are excited to welcome @janleike to the team at @AnthropicAI. Nat McAleese / @__nmca__ : the mandate of haveJan Kyle Shannon / @kyleshannon : One down. Interesting. Now, Ilya and Andrej, where are you going to land? @kipperrii : i don't know if i'm supposed to say this but anthropic has had a weekly “dress up as jan leike” day for the past year to generate good luck in our alignment research Sam Bowman / @sleepinyourhat : ✨🪩 Woo! 🪩✨ Jan's led some seminally important work on technical AI safety and I'm thrilled to be working with him! We'll be leading twin teams aimed at different parts of the problem of aligning AI systems at human level and beyond. David Wood / @dw2 : This is a very encouraging development. OpenAI's loss will be Anthropic's gain. May superalignment flourish! Ethan Perez / @ethanjperez : Welcome!! My team and I will be joining Jan's new, larger team, to help spin up a new push on these areas of alignment. Come join us! Daniel Jeffries / @dan_jeffries1 : @bindureddy This is the only team that would hire them to waste more time, money and resources on superalignment. No surprise at all. Emad / @emostaque : Is anthropic the only major org now explicitly focused on building superintelligence? OpenAI is doing product focused AGI, GoogleDeepBrain idk, Meta AI models for ads with a side of jepa etc, xai curious/non-woke AI Ed Ludlow / @edludlow : Transfer window: Leike to Anthropic from OpenAI. HERE WE GO. Amanda Askell / @amandaaskell : Excited to have @janleike on board! Claude also approves. [image] Forums: Hacker News : Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team BeauHD / Slashdot : Anthropic Hires Former OpenAI Safety Lead To Head Up New Team