The OpenAi staff member left America for Sweden due to Trump’s presidency

Until June this year, Habryn lived what many would call the American dream. She had a job at Chatgpt-Maker Openai, surrounded by some of the most brilliant minds of artificial intelligence. Her salary was comfortably in the six figures, and she had a house in San Francisco, the first city she had ever experienced in which at home was felt.

His six -year -old daughter Steffi appreciated the school and his wife, Eden, prospered in his artist career.

But the family could not shake their concern in the direction that American politics progressed. While Habryn has been born in Poland and has grown in Australia since the age of five, her partner and child had never known life in the United States.

When President Trump returned to the oval office, the family made the decision to leave San Francisco – and the dream work of Habryn and to move to Stockholm, Sweden. There they hope to remain indefinitely.

Habryn said she had chosen to leave the United States, where she has lived since 2007, a March night. She said: “My wife was traveling on the East Coast and I was at home with Steffi. And something about this special night, I was awake to worry about things that were not uncommon, and I just got to the point of: it’s time to leave, I can’t stay here and do nothing, but do anything comes with such terrible risks for me.”

“If I approached attention or stopped by the federal authorities, the result could be tragic. It turns out that my wife, the same day, has reached the same conclusion. ”

Habryn explains the “status” to which she refers: “During the campaign, it was the immigrants and the transgenders who occupied the Airways and as I am both, they brought me and come efficiently.”

The family is not alone in their decision to leave Trump America. Although it is difficult to identify the number of people who leave the United States each year (the State Department previously said Fortune It does not keep such registers) in 2024, the applications of Americans to live in the United Kingdom experienced only 26% compared to a year earlier. More than 6,100 Americans asked for British citizenship last year, a record number.

Immigration experts have also said previously Fortune Their phones were crashed – especially since this infamous Trump and Biden debate, when many people felt that the fate of the November elections had been decided. Immigration experts based in Montreal, Moving2Canada, for example, saw requests for information in 2016 and 2020 and 2024 have seen requests for volume requests after the Trump debate against Biden.

Life in Openai

Habryn is no stranger to work in the American technological elite: she moved to the United States originally to work for Google at Mountain View where she stayed for the next 12 years. Her experience in Openai, where she worked from May 2024 to July 2025, is a story familiar for many in Big Tech: an intense atmosphere, “wonderful” people and a fascinating work.

“It’s difficult,” said Habryn. “I think it’s exciting, but I was lucky to have a lot of security and confidence in my own capacities – I think that without it would have been very, very difficult.”

The prospect of losing its dream role in the research department of one of the most spoken companies in the world was a key question that prevented Habryn from moving earlier. While her team supported the decision, ultimately the legality of the work of Habryn meant that she could not move with her.

“It was really difficult,” she said. “It was probably the reason why it took me as long as to make the decision, because honestly, I had this period of grief while moving away. I have been working in technology for a long time … and the only thing I want to work on is AI.

“It was difficult and I did not like to make this decision but, in the end, it was just a question of priority.”

Habryn is convinced that she will find an interesting job when she needs it, and the family settles in their newly bought house in Stockholm – the family doubts that they will return to the United States that accompany “guilt”, Habryn says: “I buy the story that you should not fight for the things you believe and that there is the value to stay and fight for that. If it was not for Steffi, I think we would have. ”

In the end, his six -year -old daughter is their goal: “We put aside a lot of things that we like to do (because) we want Steffi to have a routine, a stable house, a stable school and all these things. The most difficult thing about this whole decision was to worry about the impact on it and therefore the priority was that we do not want to redo the next few years. ”