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I am, of course, sad that Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever, the two central people who recruited me to OpenAI and then served as my “bosses” there—two people for whom I developed tremendous admiration—have both now resigned from the company. Ilya’s resignation followed the board drama six months ago, but Jan’s resignation last week came as a shock to me and others. The Superalignment team, which Jan and Ilya led and which I was part of, is being split up and merged into other teams at OpenAI. See here for Ilya’s parting statement, and here for Jan’s. See here for Zvi Mowshowitz’s perspective and summary of reporting on these events. For additional takes, see pretty much the entire rest of the nerd Internet. As for me? My two-year leave at OpenAI was scheduled to end this summer anyway. It seems pretty clear that I ought to spend my remaining months at OpenAI simply doing my best for AI safety—for example, by shepherding watermarking toward deployment. After a long delay, I’m gratified that

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