OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-is-leaving-the-company/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260707/i35.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260707/p35#a260707p35" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Maxwell Zeff / <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-is-leaving-the-company/">OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam notified colleagues &hellip; </p>