OpenAI touts new approach to AI safety after troubling executive transfer

Rob Rosenberg, a New York entertainment attorney, said that he is also concerned. 

“The re-assigning of one of OpenAI’s top safety executives from his role feels like a continuation of this pattern we’re seeing from OpenAI, where they announce initiatives towards safety and then undo those initiatives. We’ve already seen two of OpenAI’s senior leaders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, leave the company in May, citing issues over safety culture,” Rosenberg said. “OpenAI has been anything but Open.”

“Sam Altman has not been very forthcoming with OpenAI’s plans, including his recent post on X where he says Aleksander Madry is being reassigned to a new project, but does not disclose what that new project is,” he added. “An arms race is taking place among these generative AI companies to keep rolling out newer, better and faster products, and it feels like safety is repeatedly taking a backseat to those other initiatives at OpenAI.”