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I knew about his What 2026 Looks Like, which was amazing.

And also he had pretty recently made the national news for –

having, when he quit OpenAI, they told him he had to sign a non-disparagement agreement or they would claw back his stock options.

And he refused, which they weren't prepared for.

It started a major news story, a scandal that ended up with OpenAI agreeing that they were no longer going to subject employees to that restriction.

So

I mean, people talk a lot about how it's hard to trust anyone in AI because they all have so much money invested in the hype and getting their stock options better.

And Datila had, like, just...

attempted to sacrifice millions of dollars in order to say what he believed, which to me was this incredibly strong sign of honesty and competence.

And I was like, how can I say no to this person?

Everyone else on the team also extremely impressive.

Eli Lifland, who's a member of Samots Veti, the world's top forecasting team.

He has won like the top forecasting competition.

Plenty

plausibly described as just the best forecaster in the world, at least by these really technical measures that people use in the Superforecasting Committee.

Thomas Larson, Jonas Vollmer, both really amazing people who have done great work in AI before.

I was really excited to get to work with this superstar team.

I have always wanted to get more involved in the actual work

attempt to make AI go well.

Right now, I just write about it.