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Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI for independent AI policy work

Miles Brundage announced his departure after more than six years at OpenAI, saying industry publication constraints, conflicts of interest, and the need for independent policy work outweighed staying inside the lab. He also argued that neither OpenAI, other frontier labs, nor the wider world was ready for AGI.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM17confidence 58/100

Why it moved the index

The completed departure moved an experienced AGI-readiness adviser from a frontier developer toward independent policy and oversight work, while adding a specific first-person assessment of readiness gaps. The source establishes the decision and his reasoning directly, but the claimed safety benefit of greater independence was not yet measured, so confidence is capped below 60.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 17 · confidence 58

    Adds a previously uncatalogued, first-person consequential departure and its documented AGI-readiness rationale.

    18 Aug 2026

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