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Shifting corporate priorities, Superalignment, and safeguarding humanity: Why OpenAI's safety researchers keep leaving

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PC Gamer

"The safety concerns expressed actually don't come at the AGI moment": Sam Altman says Artificial General Intelligence will come sooner than anticipated

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated that AGI might be here sooner than most people think with surprisingly little societal impact despite reports of stunted AI development due to scaling laws.

Windows Central

Sam Altman has an idea to get AI to ‘love humanity,’ use it to poll billions of people about their value systems

The OpenAI CEO said it was his one wish for AI

Fortune

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Nobel Prize winner claims former OpenAI Chief Scientist fired Sam Altman because he "is much less concerned with AI safety than profits" — and suggests superintelligence might be on the horizon: "We have maybe 4 years left"' before human extinction

Nobel Prize winner and physicist gives former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever a hat tip for his contributions to developing safe AI and firing Sam Altman for his missteps, including focusing on generating focus and abandoning the firm's founding mission.

Windows Central

OpenAI planning to become for-profit company, say reports

Reported move follows recent departure of senior figures from ChatGPT developer

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders

The Independent UK

Mira Murati leaving OpenAI highlights how much the company is starting to look like any other Big Tech giant

The company has been radically transformed in the 10 months since CEO Sam Altman was temporarily removed in a boardroom coup.

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Sam Altman is off of OpenAI’s new safety board

Group now has more power over new AI launches as well.

Fortune

A former OpenAI researcher claims the ChatGPT maker could be on the precipice of achieving AGI, but it's not prepared “to handle all that entails" as shiny products get precedents over safety

A former OpenAI researcher speculates half of the ChatGPT maker's super alignment team departed because the company is on the precipice of hitting the AGI benchmark, but it can't handle all that it entails.

Windows Central

OpenAI's AGI safety team has been gutted, says ex-researcher

A group of OpenAI researchers ensuring that a future AGI system does not pose catastrophic or even existential danger has been decimated.

Fortune

OpenAI Co-founder John Schulman Departs To Join Amazon-backed Anthropic

His departure follows OpenAI's recent dissolution of its superalignment team, a group dedicated to ensuring human control over advanced AI systems.

International Business Times

Apple joins Google, Microsoft and more in committing to new AI safety guidelines: What it means for you

Apple has agreed to a new set of AI safety regulations alongside Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others. Here's why it's good news for users.

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A year ago today, OpenAI launched a bold four-year plan that didn't even last a year

A four-year plan to boldly go where no AI had been before, now consigned to history

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OpenAI hack revealed as ChatGPT flaws exposed: Is your data at risk?

OpenAI is facing major security concerns after employees revealed a breach. Here's a look at the latest security issues with OpenAI and ChatGPT and how they could affect users.

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Hollywood tycoon Ari Emanuel blasts OpenAI’s Sam Altman, fearing the future after Elon Musk tells him he’ll become ‘a dog’ to an AI master

Emanuel, who built Endeavor from a talent agency into a fully-fledged media empire, believes Altman’s behavior shows he is not to be trusted with developing safe AI.

Windows Central

Former OpenAI Chief Scientist starts new AI firm with a keen focus on building safe superintelligence over its rival's priority on 'shiny products'

Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is starting a new company dubbed Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), focusing on building safe superintelligence, which remains a critical issue in the new age of AI.

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'The world isn’t ready, and we aren’t ready. And I’m concerned we are rushing forward regardless and rationalizing our actions': OpenAI employees sound the alarm ahead of Apple partnership

Apple is expected to announce a partnership with OpenAI next week at WWDC, but former OpenAI employees are raising the alarm. Could controversy at OpenAI derail Apple's AI ambitions?

The Guardian - US

OpenAI and Google DeepMind workers warn of AI industry risks in open letter

Current and former workers sign letter warning of lack of safety oversight and calling for more protections for whistleblowers

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Anthropic's position on AI safety is helping it attract researchers from OpenAI

Anthropic's stance on AI safety is helping it lure AI researchers away from OpenAI, whose trust and safety credentials taken a battering in recent weeks.

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A timeline of OpenAI controversy: November 2023 to May 2024

Is Altman taking too many risks in his pursuit of artificial general intelligence? The answer lies in Altman's past, from leading a victorious coup to trading blows with a Hollywood A-lister.

Windows Central

OpenAI forms a new safety team led by CEO Sam Altman and announces it’s testing a new AI model (maybe GPT-5)

OpenAI has formed a new safety team, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm. The team will focus on ensuring that OpenAI's technological advances meet critical safety and security standards.

Fortune

Former OpenAI board member reveals why Sam Altman was fired in bombshell interview—‘we learned about ChatGPT on Twitter’

"We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us," Toner said of the four board members who tried to fire Altman last year.

Fortune

OpenAI rolls out a new safety team just days after dissolving its old one

CEO Sam Altman will lead the team.

International Business Times

OpenAI Forms AI Safety Committee After Key Departures

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the formation of a new safety committee on Tuesday, weeks after the departures of key executives raised questions about the firm's commitment to mitigating the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Axios

OpenAI announces new safety committee and successor to GPT-4

This new committee will make critical security decisions for all OpenAI projects, company says.

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