OpenAI is dissolving the Mission Alignment team, which focused on developing “safe” and “trustworthy” AI.

OpenAI disbanded the team that focused on the company itself described – Ensuring that its AI systems are “safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values.” Meanwhile, the team’s former leader has been given a new role as the company’s ‘chief futurist’.

OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that team members have now been hired for other roles. It was the news Reported for the first time By Minhaj.

The disbanded team in question, which appears to have been the case Formed in September 2024was the startup’s internal unit dedicated to working on alignment. this Wide field of interest Within the industry that seeks to ensure that AI acts in accordance with human interests.

“We want these systems to consistently follow human intentions in complex real-world scenarios and adversarial conditions, avoid catastrophic behavior, and remain controllable, auditable, and consistent with human values.” mail From OpenAI’s Alignment Research blog announces.

OpenAI software Post the job The Alignment team describes it as dedicated to AI research focused on “developing methodologies that enable AI to robustly follow human intentions across a wide range of scenarios, including adversarial or high-stakes scenarios.”

in Blog post On Wednesday, Josh Acciam, former head of OpenAI’s Alignment team, posted an explanation of his new role as chief futurist at the company. “My goal is to support OpenAI’s mission – to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity – by studying how the world will change in response to AI, AGI and beyond,” Achiam wrote.

Achim noted that, in his new position, he will collaborate with Jason Pruitt, a physicist on the OpenAI technical staff.

The rest of the Alignment team — a group of six or seven people — was later reassigned to different parts of the company, an OpenAI spokesperson said. The spokesman could not say exactly where the team members were assigned, but said they were engaged in similar work in those roles. It was also not clear whether Akhayam would have a new team as part of his “future” role.

The spokesman attributed the dissolution of the team to the types of routine reorganizations that occur within a fast-moving company.

OpenAI previously had what it called a “super-compatibility team” — which it was Formed in 2023 Focused on studying the long-term existential threats posed by artificial intelligence, but this team It was dissolved in 2024.

Akhiyam Personal website It still lists him as head of OpenAI’s Mission Alignment division, describing him as interested in ensuring that humanity’s “long-term future is good.” for him LinkedIn profile He is shown to have served as the Head of Mission Alignment since September 2024.