The head of trust and safety at OpenAI, Dave Willner, announced on Friday that he is quitting the company.
He stated that he would be available for advisory work despite the demands of his profession on his family life.
“Anyone with young children and a super intense job can relate to that tension, I think, and these past few months have really crystallised for me that I was going to have to prioritise one or the other,” he said in the LinkedIn post.
In order to stop the spread of hate speech, disinformation, and other harmful content on their platforms, technological companies like OpenAI, Twitter, Alphabet, and Meta have established high-profile trust and safety departments.
After working at Airbnb and Facebook, Willner assumed his current position at OpenAI in February of last year. He blamed his choice to leave his employment on increasing obligations that were interfering with his family life.
With the help of its trust and safety team, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, whose AI chatbot ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, hopes to develop “the processes and capabilities to prevent misuse and abuse of AI technologies.”
