{"slug": "i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park", "title": "I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park", "summary": "A former OpenAI alignment safety lead announced their departure to found Jurassic Park, a startup aimed at resurrecting dinosaurs to defend against misaligned AI, citing the fossil record's 165 million years without a recorded AI cyberattack. The venture, which includes plans for a resort on Little Saint James Island, claims dinosaurs are energy-efficient and pose minimal copyright risks, with human jobs preserved through dinosaur-based agriculture.", "body_md": "# I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park\n\nI'm so grateful for my time at OpenAI, where I led alignment safety for the\n[official ChatGPT basketball](https://openai.com/supply/product/chatgpt-basketball/).\nI gained so much valuable experience building Altman's armageddon engines, and\nI'm taking it to the next level with my new startup: Jurassic Park.\n\nAt Jurassic Park, we're resurrecting the ultimate apex predators to defend humanity against misaligned AI.\n\n## Cyberdefense Capabilities\n\nFurther reading:\n[OpenAI incident report](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/),\n[Anthropic incident report](https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals).\n\nAccording to the fossil record, dinosaurs lived for 165 million years *without a\nsingle recorded AI cyberattack*. Many speculate that dinosaurs developed a\nnatural immunity to artificial intelligence threats.\n\nDatacenters evolved strong concrete exoskeletons to protect their vulnerable\ninnards from predators. But think about it -- a *dinosaur* wins against pretty\nmuch everything (except maybe a literal meteor). In a recent poll, most\nscientists agreed that a dinosaur could totally destroy a datacenter if it\nreally wanted to.\n\nAnti-AI dinosaurs have already passed experimental trials in Japan.\n\nIn 1974, apes from Black Hole Planet 3 built a space-titanium imitation of Godzilla, which rampaged across Japan. But Mechagodzilla's disguise burned off and Godzilla (with assistance from the Okinawan guardian beast) turned him into a magnet and then tore his head off.\n\nIn 1975, the ape aliens built Mechagodzilla 2, who rampaged across Japan with Dr. Mafune's sea beast Titanosaurus. But Dr. Mafune's cyborg daughter discovered she was Mechagodzilla's wireless transmitter, and shot herself to sever the link. Godzilla seized this opportunity to decapitate Mechagodzilla 2 and blast its corpse with his signature heat ray.\n\n## Model Weights\n\nMass is estimated; only Chinese weights are public.\n\n## Sustainability\n\nThis chart assumes dinosaurs are ectotherms, not endotherms.\n\nDinosaurs are energy-efficient from cradle to plate! Dinosaur meat is a natural superfood -- rich in protein or omega-3 or something. We expect it to fetch a heavy premium at fancy steak restaurants when it first comes out.\n\nWe're committed to 100% circularity. Surplus dinosaur parts will be fully recycled into coal at our proprietary underground facilities.\n\n## Alignment\n\nEverybody loves dinosaurs! Don't you want to cuddle these gentle giants?\n\nPurchase our official life-sized Stegosaurus plushie from selected distributors.\n\n## Copyright\n\nContrary to popular belief, most dinosaurs pose no copyright infringement risks.\n\n*The Land Before Time (1988)* was a decent film with superb animation, but the\nchild-friendly sequels really tarnished the brand. We expect a reboot any year\nnow.\n\nJim Henson's *Dinosaurs* aired on ABC from 1991 to 1994. Although targeted at a\nfamily audience, it somehow covered complex topics like sexual harassment,\ncensorship, religion, steroid abuse, masturbation, and corporate crime. It got\nsurprisingly good reviews; many appreciated its creepy-but-well-executed\npractical effects.\n\n## Economic Outlook\n\nTop economists expect AI to take ~99% (±5%) of human jobs. We believe Jurassic Park is the ultimate jobs program.\n\nAI cannot raise cattle, nor feed them to raptors with Spielberg's cinematic finesse. It cannot pick up mountains of feces (\"poop\") without a mechanized corporeal form. Human jobs are safe as long as we have dinosaurs.\n\nAncient humans harnessed the power of megafauna for megaprojects. According to\n*The History Channel*, ancient Egyptians used terrestrial sauropods to build the\nGreat Pyramid of Giza.\n\n## Roadmap\n\n**Phase 1:*** Completed.*Resort and theme park construction on Little Saint James Island.**Phase 2a:*** Ongoing.*Research begins into growing organic dinosaurs in vivo.**Phase 2b:*** Coming soon.*Park opens with really big horses and \"killer\" mechanized dinosaurs (built by Boston Dynamics). Our robosaurs will run the latest Grok 6.9 Mechahitler.**Phase 3:*** Probably.*Jurassic Cafe adds literal dinosaur nuggets to the menu -- tastes like chicken.**Phase 4:*** Eventually.*First organic dinosaurs enter the park.**Phase 5:** Secure AI datacenter (with a big off-switch for safety) constructed inside the T-Rex exhibit.**Phase 6:** The Loch Ness Monster fights Shamu clones in The Splash Coliseum™️ on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nAI scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. Luckily, our dino scientists are doing what they must.\n\nWe're so excited to send you back to the stone age.\n\n*Disclosure:* This post was partially funded by The Reptilian World\nGovernment.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park", "canonical_source": "https://taylor.town/leaving-openai", "published_at": "2026-08-06 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 13:56:38.900519+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Jurassic Park", "Little Saint James Island", "Godzilla", "Mechagodzilla", "The Land Before Time", "Jim Henson's Dinosaurs", "The History Channel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-m-leaving-openai-to-build-jurassic-park.jsonld"}}