Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike have resigned. They led OpenAI's alignment work. Superalignment will now be led by John Schulman, it seems. Jakub Pachocki replaced Sutskever as Chief Scientist. Reasons are unclear (as usual when safety people leave OpenAI). The NYT piece (archive) and others I've seen don't really have details. OpenAI announced Sutskever's departure in a blogpost. Sutskever and Leike confirmed their departures in tweets. Updates: Friday May 17: Superalignment dissolves.
