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OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two of OpenAI's founders, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, are on the defensive after a shake-up in the company's safety department this week.
Sutskever and Leike led OpenAI's super alignment team, which was focused on developing AI systems compatible with human interests.
"I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point," Leike wrote on X on Friday.
But as public concern continued to mount, Brockman offered more details on Saturday about how OpenAI will approach safety and risk moving forward โ especially as it develops artificial general intelligence and builds AI systems that are more sophisticated than chatbots.
But not everyone is convinced that the OpenAI team is moving ahead with development in a way that ensures the safety of humans, least of all, it seems, the people who, up to a few days ago, led the company's effort in that regard.
Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, has a global deal to allow OpenAI to train its models on its media brands' reporting.
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