“Personal update: Turns out that what I thought was leaving OpenAI became more of a…”

Personal update: Turns out that what I thought was leaving OpenAI became more of a sabbatical.

When I left a few months ago, I felt that the most important thing to focus on was making AI more useful to people. But we’ve since entered a different regime of AI progress. One in which getting the safety and security challenges of increasingly capable AI right has to become a central priority.

So I’ll be returning to OpenAI, joining @merettm to help chart a path through these challenges.

There’s much work to do, so let’s get going.