We know that OpenAI shuttered its ‘superalignment’ team – but the folks working in that team can’t talk about it, or why it happened. From VOX:

Questions arose immediately: Were they forced out? Is this delayed fallout of Altman’s brief firing last fall? Are they resigning in protest of some secret and dangerous new OpenAI project? Speculation filled the void because no one who had once worked at OpenAI was talking.

It turns out there’s a very clear reason for that. I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

OpenAI is paranoid about people talking out of school. Which only makes its customers wonder – what’s really going on over there?

Read their analysis here.