Published , by Donovan Erskine
Published , by Donovan Erskine
OpenAI, the leading company in artificial intelligence, has seen several notable exits from the company over the past year. The latest is John Schulman, a cofounder of the company who most recently served in a safety and security role. He’ll be joining rival company Anthropic, which was founded by former OpenAI employees.
John Schulman announced his resignation from OpenAI in a post on X last night. “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” he wrote. “I've decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I'm most interested in.”
Schulman’s exit comes a few months after OpenAI disbanded its superalignment team, which was focused on the safe use of AI systems, a year after forming it. Earlier this year, we saw Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever, who both worked on the superalignment team, leave the company.
With OpenAI losing another one of its core pieces, we’ll be watching to see if the trend continues in the coming months. For more OpenAI news, stay here on Shacknews.