OpenAI researcher Hieu Pham resigns in less than a year; says: I cannot believe I would say this one day, but all the mental health …

Hieu Pham, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI has left the company. Sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter), Pham said that he is “burnt out” and is taking a “break from frontier AI labs”. Hieu Pham has previously worked with Elon Musk-owned AI company, xAI. He said that working at OpenAI and xAI was “a once-in-a-lifetime experience”. “But the intensive work came with a price. I cannot believe I would say this one day, but I am burnt out. All the mental health deteriorating that I used to scoff at is real, miserable, scary, and dangerous,” he wrote.

Here’s what OpenAI researcher wrote on X