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

Aleksander Madry (@aleks_madry), X, 2026-10-19.
Source: https://x.com/aleks_madry/status/2112231448103239998

## Archived text

> 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.

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