What occurred to OpenAI’s long-term AI danger crew?

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In July final yr, OpenAI introduced the formation of a brand new analysis crew that will put together for the arrival of supersmart synthetic intelligence able to outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of many firm’s co-founders, was named because the co-lead of this new crew. OpenAI mentioned the crew would obtain 20 p.c of its computing energy.

Now OpenAI’s “superalignment crew” isn’t any extra, the corporate confirms. That comes after the departures of a number of researchers concerned, Tuesday’s information that Sutskever was leaving the corporate, and the resignation of the crew’s different co-lead. The group’s work might be absorbed into OpenAI’s different analysis efforts.