OpenAI co-founder wants to develop safe superintelligence

"Ilya Sutskever once co-founded the ChatGPT provider OpenAI and then left because of safety issues. Now he has formed his own company. The goal: safe artificial intelligence.

 

One of the founders of ChatGPT inventor OpenAI is setting up his own AI start-up. The goal of the new company, called Safe Superintelligence, is safe, highly developed artificial intelligence, Ilya Sutskever announced recently.

 

"The special thing about the company is that its first product will be safe superintelligence - and it will not bring out anything else before that," Sutskever told the financial service Bloomberg. This will allow them to avoid commercial pressure and a race with other AI labs, the researcher argued.

 

Sutskever is considered one of the leading minds in the development of artificial intelligence. At Safe Superintelligence he has two co-founders: Daniel Gross, who once worked on artificial intelligence at Apple, Daniel Levy was once with Sutskever at OpenAI.

 

Experts keep warning about AI

 

The question of whether AI systems could become dangerous to humanity once they become more powerful and independent has been a concern in the industry for years. There are repeated warnings from experts and attempts by governments to minimize risks through strict regulations and reporting requirements.

 

Sutskever was head of research at OpenAI. Last year he was involved in the surprise dismissal of OpenAI boss Sam Altman, which was reversed just a few days later after pressure from employees and major investor Microsoft. Sutskever stayed in the background after that and left the ChatGPT developer in May.

 

The vision for the new company is something like a return to OpenAI's roots as a non-profit research laboratory. However, a few years after its founding, OpenAI came to the conclusion that it would not be able to stay afloat without a commercial product. This led to a multi-billion dollar pact with the software giant Microsoft and the release of ChatGPT. How Sutskever's new superintelligence laboratory will be financed has so far remained unclear." [1]

 

1. Open-AI-Mitgründer will sichere Superintelligenz entwickeln. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH. Jun 20, 2024.