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Jan Leike@janleike

I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research. However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point.

3.8K likes44 repliesPosted May 17, 2024

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