Hieu Pham
Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI · 2026
ResignedExplicitly stated
Evidence reviewed
What happened
Resigned after seven months citing severe burnout from frontier AI work. Publicly stated: 'Today, I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing. When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do? And it''s when, not if.'
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