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Weng's exit is part of a broader trend of departures from OpenAI, with several AI safety and policy researchers leaving the company over the past year. Some have criticized OpenAI for prioritizing commercial interests over AI safety. Weng joins other notable figures such as Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, who also left OpenAI this year to focus on AI safety elsewhere. Weng initially joined OpenAI in 2018, contributing to the robotics team that developed a robot hand capable of solving a Rubik's cube. As OpenAI shifted its focus to the GPT paradigm, Weng transitioned to building the applied AI research team in 2021 and later led the creation of a dedicated safety systems team in 2023.
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