I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I'm most interested in. To be clear, I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career. I joined OpenAI almost 9 years ago as part of the founding team after grad school. It's the first and only company where I've ever worked, other than an internship. It's also been quite a lot of fun. I'm grateful to Sam and Greg for recruiting me back at the beginning, and Mira and Bob for putting a lot of faith in me, bringing great opportunities and helping me successfully navigate various challenges. I'm proud of what we've all achieved together at OpenAI; building an unusual and unprecedented company with a public benefit mission. I am confident that OpenAI and the teams I was part of will continue to thrive without me. Post-training is in good hands and has a deep bench of amazing talent. I get too much credit for ChatGPT -- Barret has done an incredible job building the team into the incredibly competent operation it is now, with Liam, Luke, and others. I've been heartened to see the alignment team coming together with some promising projects. With leadership from Mia, Boaz and others, I believe the team is in very capable hands. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to participate in such an important part of history and I'm proud of what we've achieved together. I'll still be rooting for you all, even while working elsewhere.
我今天与 OpenAI 的同事分享了以下笔记：
我做出了离开 OpenAI 的艰难决定。这个选择源于我希望进一步关注人工智能对齐，并开启职业生涯的新篇章，重返实际技术工作。我决定在 Anthropic 追求这一目标，我相信我可以获得新的视角，并与深入研究我最感兴趣的主题的人一起进行研究。需要明确的是，我离开并不是因为 OpenAI 缺乏对对齐研究的支持。相反，公司领导一直非常致力于投资这一领域。我的决定是个人决定，基于我希望在职业生涯的下一个阶段集中精力。
近 9 年前，我研究生毕业后加入 OpenAI，成为创始团队的一员。这是我工作过的第一家也是唯一一家公司，除了实习。工作也非常有趣。我很感谢 Sam 和 Greg 在一开始就招募了我，也很感谢 Mira 和 Bob 对我充满信心，给我带来了巨大的机会，帮助我成功应对各种挑战。我为我们在 OpenAI 共同取得的成就感到自豪；我们建立了一家以公益为使命的、不同寻常、前所未有的公司。
我相信，即使没有我，OpenAI 和我所在的团队也将继续蓬勃发展。后期训练工作进展顺利，拥有一批出色的人才。ChatGPT --的功劳很大。Barret 与 Liam、Luke 和其他人一起，将团队建设成现在这样一支非常有能力的团队，这真是太棒了。我很高兴看到协调团队齐心协力，开展了一些有前途的项目。在 Mia、Boaz 和其他人的领导下，我相信团队会非常有能力。
我非常感激有机会参与如此重要的历史时刻，并为我们共同取得的成就感到自豪。即使我在其他地方工作，我仍会支持你们所有人。
