OpenAI dissolves high-profile safety team after Sutskever’s Exit

OpenAI dissolves high-profile safety team after Sutskever’s Exit
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI. (Image: Bloomberg)
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By Rachel Metz and Shirin Ghaffary (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI has effectively dissolved a team focused on ensuring the safety of possible future ultra-capable artificial intelligence systems following the departure of the group’s two leaders, including OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.Rather than maintain the so-called superalignment team as a standalone entity, OpenAI is now integrating the group more deeply across its research efforts to help the company achieve its safety goals, the company told Bloomberg News. ...

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