According to a former executive at OpenAI, security at the AI startup has "taken a backseat to shiny products."

OpenAI debuted its most recent version of its artificial intelligence model on Monday. It can now replicate human speech patterns and even attempt to gauge an individual's emotional state.

Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, announced his departure from the business on Tuesday, over ten years after Leike's retirement.

According to a former executive at OpenAI who left the business earlier this week, security at the well-known artificial intelligence startup has "taken a backseat to shiny products".

Jan Leike said in a series of postings on the social networking platform X that he joined the San Francisco-based startup because he believed it would be the greatest site to do AI research. Leike led OpenAI's "Superalignment" team with a co-founder who also quit this week.

Leike, whose last day was Thursday, stated, "However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership concerning the company's core priorities for an extended period, until we finally reached a breaking point."

Leike, an AI researcher by background, said that he thinks more work has to go into becoming ready for the next generation of AI models, including safety and social effect analysis. The corporation "is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity," he added, adding that creating "smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavor."

Leike commented, "OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI company." Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a future concept that describes robots that are either as generally intelligent as humans or at least capable of doing numerous tasks just as well.

In response to Leike's postings, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his gratitude for Leike's services to the organization and expressed his sadness at his departure.

Asserting that Leike is "right, we have a lot more to do; we are committed to doing it," Altman promised to write a more extensive piece on the topic in the days ahead.

Additionally, the business said on Friday that it has dissolved Leike's Superalignment team, which was established to concentrate on AI threats, and that its personnel are now being integrated across all of its research endeavors.

Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, announced his departure from the business on Tuesday, over ten years after Leike's retirement. Sutskever was one of four board members who voted to remove Altman from office last autumn, but they swiftly had him back. Sutskever informed Altman that he was being let go in November of last year, although he subsequently expressed sadness over the news.

Without providing further information, Sutskever said that he is working on a new project that is important to him. Jakub Pachocki will take over as chief scientist in his stead. Altman described Pachocki as "also easily one of the greatest minds of our generation" as well as said that he is "very confident he will lead us to make substantial and safe progress towards our mission of making certain that AGI benefits everyone."

OpenAI debuted its most recent version of its artificial intelligence model on Monday. It can now replicate human speech patterns and even attempt to gauge an individual's emotional state.