Lennart joins OpenAI Foundation to lead new AI Resources initiative
divyasiddarth · x · 2026-08-19
Governance researcher Lennart announced joining the OpenAI Foundation to lead "AI Resources." He argues society's capacity to respond must scale as fast as AI capabilities, and that the same advances creating new challenges also expand what AI can do to address them — especially if we're heading toward systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
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