Ex-OpenAI VP Miles Brundage: if you're considering leaving the AI industry, you probably should
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-09
Miles Brundage, former VP of safety systems at OpenAI, says he's had the "leaving the AI industry" conversation hundreds of times, and his TL;DR is that anyone already considering it probably should leave. He's happy to discuss pros, cons, and logistics.
Quoting Nora Ammann, who argues many valuable public-good initiatives urgently need building outside frontier labs and won't be built inside them.
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