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The Future. OpenAI is reportedly shuttering its “superalignment” team — the safety team in charge of figuring out safeguards for future AI that’s more intelligent than humans. Considering OpenAI’s rapid expansion and quest to build artificial general intelligence, the news may put extra pressure on Congress to pass safety-focused AI regulations as soon as possible.
Out of alignment
OpenAI’s decision to shut down its superalignment team is raising a lot of eyebrows.
- Superalignment team heads Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI’s chief scientist who previously clashed with CEO Sam Altman) and Jan Leike both departed last week, and many other team members were either fired, or they resigned in recent months.
- Insiders report that the team, which was created last July to provide safety checks on both OpenAI’s systems and those of competitors, has been on life support for a while… especially as it fought for promised resources that were never delivered.
- That made many on the team believe that the support of the superalignment team was nothing more than PR, leading Leike to pronounce in his resignation that OpenAI’s “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”
Moving forward, OpenAI’s safety-focused researchers will be spread across different departments. Only time will tell if that’s the safest choice.
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