OpenAI's AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn't ready For What It's Building

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Future Shock

OpenAI's researcher responsible for ensuring the company — and the world — is ready for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has stepped down. In his departure, he warns that no one is truly prepared for what lies ahead.

In a personal Substack post, Miles Brundage — OpenAI's recently departed AGI readiness lead — described leaving his "dream job" after six years as a difficult but necessary choice. He cited a profound sense of responsibility toward the human-level AI he believes the company is bringing into existence.

"I decided," Brundage wrote, "that I want to impact and influence AI's development from outside the industry rather than inside."

Readiness Gap

Addressing preparedness for this still-theoretical technology, Brundage was direct and uncompromising.

"In short, neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready," he wrote, "and the world is also not ready."

Levels and Levels

Brundage confirmed he had shared these concerns with OpenAI leadership. He also noted that "AGI is an overloaded phrase that implies more of a binary way of thinking than actually makes sense."

Rather than a simple before-and-after threshold, he described AI progress as a series of graduated stages. Brundage played a key role in developing OpenAI's five-step capability scale, which was leaked to Bloomberg over the summer. The framework culminates in systems capable of performing the work of an entire organization. According to the scale, the industry currently stands at the edge of level two — AI with human-level reasoning abilities.

Despite this trajectory, Brundage maintains that neither OpenAI nor society at large is equipped for the next wave of advanced AI systems.

He emphasized that while AGI holds potential to benefit humanity, such outcomes are not guaranteed. Realizing positive results will require deliberate choices by those building and regulating the technology — a responsibility he suggests has not yet been fully embraced.

Organizational Shifts

Following Brundage's exit, OpenAI is redistributing members of its AGI readiness team across other groups. This restructuring arrives less than six months after the company disbanded its dedicated AI safety team, raising further questions about its approach to responsible development.

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