OpenAI has lost another long-serving AI safety researcher and been hit by allegations from another former researcher that the company broke copyright law in the training of its models. Both cases raise serious questions about OpenAI’s methods, culture, direction, and future.
On Wednesday, Miles Brundage—who had currently been leading a team charged with thinking about policies to help both the company and society at large prepare for the advent of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI—announced he was departing the company on Friday after more than six years so he could continue his work with fewer constraints.
