Former OpenAI CTO Chief of Staff transitions to a foundation on a full-time basis, with long-term security operations handed over to the nonprofit parent organization

AIMPACT news: On May 19 (UTC+8), according to Beating monitoring, Bianca Martin announced that she has transitioned to full-time work at the OpenAI Foundation, joining the AI Resilience project led by co-founder Wojciech Zaremba. Before the transfer, she served as Chief of Staff to former CTO Mira Murati for technology, and in the AGI readiness team specialized in risks related to emerging technology. Martin joined OpenAI in 2019, helped draft the company’s first deployment tactical playbook, and assisted in launching the researcher access program that came with GPT-3. According to an internal letter, this program later became the foundation for OpenAI’s red-team testing work.

At present, the OpenAI Foundation is establishing new core lines of business. According to a March announcement, over the next year the foundation is expected to invest at least $10 billion, with funds covering four major areas: life sciences, employment economics, community projects, and the newly added AI Resilience. Among them, the first batch of tasks under the AI Resilience project directly targets children’s AI safety, biological defense, as well as independent model testing and standards setting.

In addition to expanding its business, the foundation’s funding scope is also being updated. During the restructuring in October last year, the foundation retained 26% equity in OpenAI’s commercial entity, which at the time was valued at about $1300 billion. After new financing in February this year, the official valuation of that equity has exceeded $1800 billion. Martin’s shift to a foundation valued at $1800 billion indicates that OpenAI is transferring some of its long-term social risk and safety work to be advanced under its non-profit parent organization.

(Source: BlockBeats)