A former engineer at ChatGPT-parent OpenAI, Daniel Kokotajlo, has now revealed why he stepped down. He also expressed a lack of faith in the company’s approach to artificial general intelligence and raised concerns over the silencing of researchers.
What Happened: On Tuesday, Kokotajlo took to X, formerly Twitter, and in a thread of 15 posts, expressed his dissatisfaction with the Sam Altman-led company.
“In April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — ‘AI systems that are generally smarter than humans,'” he said.
Kokotajlo said he joined OpenAI with the expectation that the organization would significantly increase its investment in safety research as its systems advanced. However, OpenAI never made this shift. “People started resigning when they realized this. I was not the first or last to do so.”
He went on to say that OpenAI asked him to sign a nondisparagement clause ...