Safety Researcher · OpenAI · 2024
Departed in early June 2024, the same week he helped organize the public 'Right to Warn' letter demanding that AI-lab employees be free to raise safety concerns. Said his faith in OpenAI's structure had 'significantly waned' over his final six months, and that with a technology as transformational as AGI, faltering in the mission is 'more than disappointing — it's dangerous.'
“With a technology as transformational as AGI, faltering in the mission is more than disappointing — it's dangerous. (statement accompanying the Right to Warn letter, June 2024)”
Correction: Upgraded from contextual to direct on 2026-07-22: research located his Right to Warn letter signature and accompanying public statement, absent from the earlier citation set.