@jachiam0: A little while ago I shared this message with OpenAI on Slack: Cherished friends, colleagues, members of the staff! I’m…

A little while ago I shared this message with OpenAI on Slack: Cherished friends, colleagues, members of the staff! I’m graduating this month. There’s not a specific reason for me leaving, or a specific reason for why now. But it’s something I have been thinking of for a while and it feels right. The world is in on the secret now and it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab. I joined OpenAI in 2017 as a 25-year-old intern. Computers could not yet talk or think. I’m 34 now, with a family and a two-year-old son, and computers can solve frontier science problems. This was a decade where centuries happened. The future of humanity depends on the choices we make together about AGI and superintelligence. Everything is at stake. But more importantly, everything is possible. We will soon be able to take shots on goal at the highest aspirations of our species. I believe we can get to a world where “meeting everyone’s basic needs” is not just a solved problem, but where we feel offended the bar was ever set that low. I believe we can get to a world of peace, unprecedented prosperity, and unimaginable possibilities, social and scientific. Whatever I do next, I will continue to work with you on making this vision real. If you were to go back nine years and tell me how it all turned out, I would be astonished to hear so much good news. Thank you for making it so special. Thank you for the privilege of working alongside you. The task of reaching out to everyone to thank individually is daunting because of how long the list is. Fortunately I’ll have a few weeks to do it. My last day will be the 24th. To safe AGI.