OpenAI Dissolves High-Profile Safety Team After Chief Scientist Sutskever’s Exit
“Superalignment” group will be folded into broader research efforts at the company.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI.
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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. The team was formed less than a year ago under the leadership of Sutskever and Jan Leike, another OpenAI veteran.