Nine year OpenAI veteran Joshua Achiam resigns: AGI's mission is not just within the laboratory walls According to Beating monitoring, OpenAI's Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam announced that he will be leaving the company, and the 24th of this month will be his last day. He publicly sent a farewell letter to internal Slack on X, stating that there was no specific reason for his resignation, nor was it triggered by a certain point in time. He just thought for a while and believed that he could now continue to promote the mission of safe AGI outside of the cutting-edge laboratory. Achiam joined OpenAI as an intern in 2017 and has been engaged in AI security research for a long time, serving as the leader of the mission alignment team. In February of this year, after OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, he became the Chief Futurist responsible for researching the impact of AGI and stronger AI on society, policy, and security. In his farewell letter, he said that the past nine years have been like 'centuries of change in a decade'; The future depends on the common choices made by all parties around AGI and superintelligence. OpenAI has not yet announced who will take over this role. [Original link]