Aleks Madonian rejoins OpenAI after sabbatical
Dean Ball and Boaz Barak announced Aleks Madonian's return to the OpenAI team after a sabbatical. Madonian had previously stepped away to focus on external AI usability work. This is documented as a staffing and organizational update for the lab.
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- Very happy to see Aleks re-join the OpenAI team!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. open on X14 likes · 0 reposts
- So great to have you back!!2 likes · 0 reposts
- I am very grateful Aleksander accepted our request to come take this on; the safety and security challenges in front of us as we confront superintelligence are immense, and he has an excellent set of skills to work on this.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. open on X658 likes · 26 reposts
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