Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
Another leader of OpenAI’s security strategy is leaving, joining a growing list of employees who have left the company’s security and alignment teams in recent years. Johannes Heidecke, head of OpenAI’s Security Systems team, is leaving as the company reorganizes its research and security work under a single leader. “We are grateful for Johannes’ contributions
