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OpenAI’s former superalignment leader blasts company: ‘safety culture and processes have taken a backseat’

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2024-05-18 23:30:03

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Earlier this week, the two co-leaders of OpenAI’s superalignment team — Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist and Jan Leike, a researcher — both announced within hours they were resigning from the company.

This was notable not only given their seniority at OpenAI (Sutskever was a co-founder), but because of what they were working on: superalignment refers to the development of systems and processes to control superintelligent AI models, ones that exceed human intelligence.

But following the departures of the two superalignment co-leads, OpenAI’s superalignment team has reportedly been disbanded, according to a new article from Wired (where my wife works as editor-in-chief).

Now today Leike has taken to his personal account on X to post a lengthy thread of messages excoriating OpenAI and its leadership for neglecting “safety” in favor of “shiny products.”