OpenAI researcher Miki Habryn gave up her dream job in San Francisco to move her family to Stockholm, Sweden, prioritizing stability for her six-year-old daughter over her career in cutting-edge AI. Habryn said leaving the U.S. came with “grief” after years at Google and OpenAI, but the chance to provide her daughter Steffi with a secure home and schooling outweighed staying in an America with shifting political ideologies.

Miki Habryn can finally sleep at night. For many months, in the run-up to and after President Trump had won the election, that wasn’t the case.

Up until June this year Habryn was living what many would call the American dream. She had a job at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence. Her pay was comfortably in the

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