An OpenAI team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart computers was leaderless on Friday after two high-profile figures left the company. 'OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI (artificial general intelligence) company,' Leike wrote Friday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises to share more in the days ahead about what the ChatGPT maker is doing to keep its artificial intelligence technology safe. Photo: Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP/FileAn OpenAI team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart computers was leaderless on Friday after two high-profile figures left the company.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and"superalignment" team co-leader Jan Leike announced their departures from the ChatGPT-maker this week, and US media reported that remaining members of the group have either left or been reassigned to other parts of the San Francisco-based company. The apparent dismantling of an OpenAI team focused on keeping sophisticated artificial intelligence under control comes as such technology comes under increased scrutiny from regulators and fears mount regarding its dangers.OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman responded to Leike's post with one of his own, thanking him for his work at the company and saying he was sad to see Leike leave.Sutskever said on X that he was leaving after almost a decade at OpenAI, whose"trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous." "I'm confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial," he added, referring to computer technology that seeks to perform as well as -- or better than -- human cognition. Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, sat on the board that voted to remove fellow chief executive Altman in November last year. The ousting threw the San Francisco-based startup into a tumult, with the OpenAI board hiring Altman back a few days later after staff and investors rebelled.OpenAI early this week released a higher-performing and even more human-like version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins ChatGPT, making it free to all users. Altman has previously pointed to the Scarlett Johansson character in the movie"Her," where she voices an AI-based virtual assistant dating a man, as an inspiration for where he would like AI interactions to go. The day will come when"digital brains will become as good and even better than our own," Sutskever said during a talk at a TED AI summit in San Francisco late last year.
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