Overview
- OpenAI confirmed the small unit, created in 2024, was dissolved and its six or seven members were reassigned across the company.
- The company did not specify the new placements or reporting structures, leaving oversight details unspecified.
- Former team lead Josh Achiam announced a Chief Futurist role focused on studying how AI and AGI may reshape society.
- Achiam said he will collaborate with OpenAI physicist Jason Pruet, and it remains unclear whether he will lead a new team.
- The move follows the 2024 disbanding of OpenAI’s Superalignment group that had focused on long‑term AI risk.