Pete Huang

Today, in April, an open AI researcher was fired for allegedly leaking important information.

Now he's going public with his take on the future of AI.

Are we in for world disaster?

If you work in the tech industry in San Francisco, you're surrounded by some of the most talented people in the world.

And I mean that very literally.

You could walk into a party and all of a sudden there's this one person who researched this crazy new material.

There's another person who started this amazingly large company.

These people are everywhere here, and you get kinda used to it until every once in a while you read the background of someone and you're reminded of how insane it all is.

Leopold Aschenbrenner is one of the most recent versions of those types of people to me.

Until recently, he was just a name on paper for me.

I mean, back in April, the information had reported that he and another researcher at OpenAI were fired for leaking, and that was pretty much the extent of my exposure to him.

And then I got to reading about his background and his work.

And boy, this is one of those people that you're just blown away by.

So here we go.

Leopold Aschenbrenner from Germany, really curious student, extremely sharp, would be one of those kids that would push for more and keep digging at topics at school.

did quiz bowl and debate and science competitions.

For one of his science projects, he and a teammate built a system that would track and warn and notify you about fine dust levels in Berlin.

And that won the top spot in all of Berlin that year.

Leopold then goes to college in the US at age 15.

He's at Columbia University studying statistics, economics, mathematics.