Leike, former security lead at OpenAI, will join Rival Anthropic

(Bloomberg) — Jan Leike, a former co-director of an OpenAI security team focused on long-term risks, is joining artificial intelligence rival Anthropic, Leike said in a post Tuesday.

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Leike left the company earlier this month after Ilya Sutskever, the other leader of OpenAI’s Superalignment team, resigned from the company. The team they led was later disbanded.

Upon leaving, Leike criticized OpenAI, saying that “security culture and processes have taken a backseat to brilliant products.” On Tuesday, OpenAI formed a new security team with CEO Sam Altman.

Leike’s work at Anthropic will focus on topics similar to those he worked on at OpenAI, he said — security issues related to controlling so-called superhuman AI models. Such AI models do not yet exist, but companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are conducting research into how they could be controlled if they were built in the future.

Anthropic, formed by former OpenAI employees, calls itself a more security-focused AI company. Leike did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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