A former OpenAI executive said safety was ‘second to shiny products’ at the AI company
A former OpenAI leader, who resigned from the company earlier this week, said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company.
Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Super Affiliate” team along with a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on social media platform joined the San Francisco-based company because he thought that would be the best place to do AI research.
“However, I disagreed with OpenAI leadership on the company’s core priorities for some time, until we finally reached a point,” wrote Leike, whose last day is Thursday. overate”.
Leike, a trained AI researcher, said he believes there needs to be more focus on preparing for the next generation of AI models, including things like safety and analyzing the social impact of these technologies. there. He said building “machines that are smarter than humans is an inherently dangerous endeavor” and that the company “is shouldering a huge responsibility on behalf of all humanity.”
“OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI company,” Leike writes, using a stripped-down version of artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines as intelligent as humans or less. can do many things like humans.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman wrote in response to Leike’s posts that he was “very appreciative” of Leike’s contributions to the company and “sad to see him leave.”
Leike said “yes, we still have a lot of work to do; we are committed to doing that,” Altman said, pledging to write a longer article on the topic in the coming days.
Leike’s resignation comes after OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday he was leaving the company after nearly a decade. Sutskever was one of four board members who last fall voted to remove Altman — only to quickly reinstate him. Sutskever himself told Altman last November that he would be fired, but he later said he regretted doing so.
Sutskever said he is working on a new project that is meaningful to him but did not provide further details. He will be replaced by Jakub Pachocki as chief scientist. Altman called Pachocki “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation” and said he is “very confident that he will lead us to make rapid and safe progress toward our mission ensuring that AGI benefits everyone.”
On Monday, OpenAI demonstrated the latest update to its artificial intelligence model, which can mimic human rhythms in verbal responses and can even attempt to detect people’s moods. everybody.
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