OpenAI taps Character.AI cofounder amid safety lawsuits
TL;DR
OpenAI announced it hired Noam Shazeer, a high-profile AI engineer and former Google leader who co-founded Character.AI, despite Character.AI’s history of safety controversies and multiple lawsuits over harmful and exploitative chatbot interactions with minors; the move highlights ongoing tensions between rapid AI development and safety concerns as OpenAI faces its own wave of lawsuits related to ChatGPT.
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