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Artificial intelligence experts tend to have two points they keep repeating publicly: how advanced and capable AI is today, but also how it won’t turn into the Terminator’s malevolent Skynet. Still, governments around the world began asking companies to promise safety, transparency and “off switch“in their technology, in case he goes rogue.
Ilya Sutzkever, former Chief Scientist at OpenAI, based his next company on this concept. He announced the company, called Safe superintelligencein a blog post on Wednesday, promising that his team, investors and business model are “all aligned” and that his team has “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.”
“We approach safety and capability in tandem as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific discovery,” he wrote, along with co-founder Daniel Gross, who came by Apple’s AI teamand Daniel Levy, who previously worked at OpenAI. “We plan to develop the capabilities as quickly as possible while ensuring that our safety is always at the forefront. That way, we can scale with ease.”
Sutskever’s announcement has been expected since he left OpenAI in May. Sutzkever he is reported to have helped lead the effort to ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last year. The boardroom coup ultimately failed after one of the company’s key investors, Microsoft, hired Altman like hundreds of OpenAI employees publicly threatened to leave and join him.
The question now is who will ultimately control one of potentially the biggest new technologies in decades. OpenAI moved on quickly without Sutskever, launching new features like its GPT-4o, which the company said responds to people’s requests faster, can reason better and can conduct conversations by voice and via a smartphone camera. Meanwhile, Google, An apple, Facebook and Microsoft announced new AI features and initiatives to take both with each other and a growing field of startups.
Sutskever reportedly plans to take a different approach, telling Bloomberg in an interview that his company has “no near-term intention” to sell AI products or services.
“This company is special in that its first product will be safe superintelligence, and until then it won’t do anything else,” Sutzkever said. “It will be completely insulated from the external pressures of having to deal with a large and complex product and being stuck in a competitive rat race.”
Bloomberg said Sutskever declined to name Safe Superintelligence’s financial backers or disclose how much his company has raised.
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