Yes, based on the last month, “the number of safety-focused researchers is dropping rapidly” certainly seems true.
I’d guess “most” is still an overstatement; I doubt the number of people has actually dropped by >50%. But the departures, plus learning that Superalignment never got their promised compute, have caused me to revise my fuzzy sense of “how much core safety work OpenAI is doing” down by a lot, probably over 50%.
Now that Jan Leike has left, superalignment team has been disbanded, OAI has really lost most of the safety focused researchers.
Yes, based on the last month, “the number of safety-focused researchers is dropping rapidly” certainly seems true.
I’d guess “most” is still an overstatement; I doubt the number of people has actually dropped by >50%. But the departures, plus learning that Superalignment never got their promised compute, have caused me to revise my fuzzy sense of “how much core safety work OpenAI is doing” down by a lot, probably over 50%.