{"id":995383,"date":"2026-02-27T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995383"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:57:02","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"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 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hieu Pham, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI has left the company. Sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter), Pham said that he is \u201cburnt out\u201d and is taking a \u201cbreak from frontier AI labs\u201d. Hieu Pham has previously worked with Elon Musk-owned AI company, xAI. He said that working at OpenAI and xAI was \u201ca once-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d. \u201cBut 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,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what OpenAI researcher wrote on X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hieu Pham, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI has left the company. Sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter), Pham said that he is \u201cburnt out\u201d and is taking a \u201cbreak from frontier AI labs\u201d. Hieu Pham has previously worked with Elon Musk-owned AI company, xAI. He said that working at OpenAI and xAI was \u201ca once-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d. \u201cBut 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,\u201d he wrote. Here\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}