ChatGPT safety researcher quits, says he’s ‘pretty terrified’ of the speed of AI

These days, the AI news cycle is dominated by DeepSeek. DeepSeek is a Chinese startup that released a reasoning model as powerful as ChatGPT o1 despite not having the massive hardware and infrastructure resources of OpenAI. DeepSeek used older chips and software optimizations to train DeepSeek R1.

Accusations from OpenAI that DeepSeek might have distilled ChatGPT to train precursors of R1 don't even matter.

The DeepSeek project probably achieved its goal on multiple fronts. It leveled the playing field in the AI wars, giving China a fighting chance. DeepSeek also gave a huge financial blow to the US stock market, which lost nearly $1 billion, with AI hardware companies accounting for the biggest market cap losses.

Finally, DeepSeek gave China a software weapon that might be even more powerful than TikTok. DeepSeek is the number one app in the App Store. On top of that, anyone can install the DeepSeek model on their computer and use it to build other models.

With all that in mind, you might not even pay attention to reports saying that another key OpenAI safety researcher has quit. Steven Adler is another name we'll add to a growing list of engineers who left OpenAI in the past year.

It's also interesting that the engineer quit in mid-November but made his departure public on Monday, just as DeepSeek news crashed the market.

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