OpenAI loses another senior figure, disperses safety research team he led
OpenAI has lost another senior staffer, and on his way out the door this one warned the company – and all other AI shops – are just not ready for artificial general intelligence.
The departing exec is Miles Brundage who on Friday will cease working as senior advisor for AGI readiness. AGI – artificial general intelligence – is the term used to describe AI that appears to have the same cognitive abilities as a human. Like people, AGIs could theoretically learn almost anything. Preparing for the arrival of AGI is regarded as an important and responsible action, given the possibility AGIs could do better than humans in some fields.
Brundage revealed his departure in a Substack post in which he explained his decision as a desire to contemplate OpenAI's AGI readiness, and the world, without having his view biased by being an employee.
"Neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready, and the world is also not ready," he wrote, adding "To be clear, I don't think this is a controversial statement among OpenAI's leadership, and notably, that's a different question from whether the company and the world are on track to be ready at the relevant time (though I think the gaps remaining are substantial enough that I'll be working on AI policy for the rest of my career)."
