Jan Leike, a leading safety researcher who resigned from OpenAI earlier this month, announced on Tuesday that he has joined the rival AI startup Anthropic.
Leike announced his resignation from OpenAI on May 15, just days before the company dissolved the superalignment group he co-led. This team, formed in 2023, focused on addressing long-term AI risks. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced Leike’s departure in a post on X on May 14.
Leike expressed his excitement to join Anthropic in a post on X, stating, “I’m excited to join @AnthropicAI to continue the superalignment mission. My new team will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.”
Anthropic, backed by Amazon with up to $4 billion in funding for a minority stake, welcomed Leike as part of their mission.
Leike acknowledged the difficulty of leaving OpenAI, writing, “Stepping away from this job has been one of the hardest things I have ever done, because we urgently need to figure out how to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.”
The importance of AI safety has surged across the tech sector since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022, leading to a boom in generative AI products and investments. Some industry experts have expressed concerns that companies are moving too quickly in releasing powerful AI products without adequately considering potential societal harm.
In response, OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, announced the creation of a new safety and security committee led by senior executives, including CEO Sam Altman. This committee will recommend safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations to the company’s board.
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei and other former OpenAI executives, launched its ChatGPT rival, Claude 3, in March. In addition to Amazon, Anthropic has received funding from Google, Salesforce, and Zoom.
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