https://it-news.uk/tags/ai-safety/ Recent content in Ai-Safety on IT News Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-departs/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-departs/ <p>Joshua Achiam, OpenAI&rsquo;s chief futurist and one of its longest-serving safety researchers, announced Tuesday that he will leave at the end of July — ending a nearly nine-year run at the AI company.</p> <p>Achiam joined OpenAI in 2017, back when the organization was still operating as a nonprofit research lab. He went on to co-author the GPT-4 technical report and became a core voice inside the company on AI safety, long-term risk, and public policy. His departure is not tied to any single event, he said, but was a decision he arrived at after long reflection.</p>