That was a very formative period for the company, and arguably - given the influence Facebook has had on how social media has developed globally - for the internet and society overall.
There, he was an early employee who helped spell out the company’s first community standards position, which is still used as the basis of the company’s approach today. The Facebook work is especially interesting. Willner has been in his OpenAI post for just 1.5 years, but he comes from a long career in the field that includes leading trust and safety teams at Facebook and Airbnb. While he and his wife - Charlotte Willner, who is also a trust and safety specialist - both made commitments to always put family first, he said, “in the months following the launch of ChatGPT, I’ve found it more and more difficult to keep up my end of the bargain.” “I’m proud of everything our team has accomplished in my time at OpenAI, and while my job there was one of the coolest and most interesting jobs it’s possible to have today, it had also grown dramatically in its scope and scale since I first joined,” he wrote. Instead, he keeps it high-level, noting that the demands of his OpenAI job shifted into a “high-intensity phase” after the launch of ChatGPT. Willner doesn’t make any reference to any of that specifically in his LinkedIn post. The importance of all this is not lost on OpenAI, which has sought to position itself as an aware and responsible player in the field. That comes in the wake of a lot of noise in Europe related to AI regulation, as well as shifting sentiments among some others. Just today, OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman is due to appear at the White House alongside execs from Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to endorse voluntary commitments to pursue shared safety and transparency goals ahead of an AI executive order that’s in the works. How best to regulate activity and companies in this brave new world? How best to mitigate any harmful impacts across a whole spectrum of issues? Trust and safety are foundational parts of those conversations. His departure is coming at a critical time for the world of AI.Īlongside all the excitement about the capabilities of generative AI platforms - based on large language or other foundational models and are lighting-fast at producing freely-generated text, images, music and more based on simple prompts from users - there has been a growing list of questions. “We thank Dave for his valuable contributions to OpenAI,” it said. OpenAI said in a statement that it’s seeking a replacement and that CTO Mira Murati will manage the team on an interim basis.
He’d been in the role for a year and a half. He plans to spend more time with his young family, he said. Dave Willner, an industry veteran who was the startup’s head of trust and safety, announced in a post on LinkedIn last night (first spotted by Reuters) that he has left the job and transitioned to an advisory role. A significant personnel change is afoot at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence juggernaut that has nearly single-handedly inserted the concept of generative AI into global public discourse with the launch of ChatGPT.
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