5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American AI safety researcher — former OpenAI researcher — who left OpenAI in 2024 citing safety concerns and forfeited his vested equity — author of forecasting documents on AI timelines and transformation.
Israeli-Canadian-American AI researcher — co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI — who was a student of Geoffrey Hinton — led the development of GPT-2, GPT-3, and GPT-4 — who attempted to remove Sam Altman as CEO in November 2023 and then founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.
American AI researcher — co-founder of OpenAI — who invented Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and co-created RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) — the training technique behind ChatGPT — who left OpenAI in 2024 to join Anthropic.
Product executive at OpenAI responsible for ChatGPT product — referenced in discussions of AI product strategy.
American AI safety researcher — former OpenAI safety team lead — founder of the Alignment Research Center (ARC) — who invented RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) in its original conceptual form — the most technically sophisticated AI safety researcher.