OpenAI Thinks Superhuman AI Is Coming - And Wants To Build Tools To Control It
TechCrunch, Thursday, December 14,2023
While investors were preparing to go nuclear after Sam Altman's unceremonious ouster from OpenAI and Altman was plotting his return to the company, the members of OpenAI's Superalignment team were assiduously plugging along on the problem of how to control AI that's smarter than humans.
Or at least, that's the impression they'd like to give.
This week, I took a call with three of the Superalignment team's members - Collin Burns, Pavel Izmailov and Leopold Aschenbrenner - who were in New Orleans at NeurIPS, the annual machine learning conference, to present OpenAI's newest work on ensuring that AI systems behave as intended.
OpenAI formed the Superalignment team in July to develop ways to steer, regulate and govern 'superintelligent' AI systems - that is, theoretical systems with intelligence far exceeding that of humans.