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Days after two top safety executives announced their departures from OpenAI, the company's CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday to allay concerns.
On May 14, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist, said It was him Resign from the company. Sutskever was a member of the board of directors They voted to oust Altman From the company again in November 2023.
Later that day, Jan Leike, co-head of OpenAI's hyperalignment unit and Sutskever's colleague, also said he was leaving.
In his own post dated May 17, He told you“I've been disagreeing with OpenAI's leadership about the company's core priorities for some time, until we finally reached a breaking point.”
In other posts that day, he said safety culture and processes were not being prioritized, especially with regard to artificial general intelligence, a type of artificial intelligence that can exceed human capabilities across a wide range of tasks.
“We are long overdue in getting incredibly serious about the implications of AGI,” Lake wrote, adding: “OpenAI must become the AGI company that prioritizes safety.”
In a post co-signed by Altman and Stockman on Saturday, the pair said they recognize the risks and benefits of artificial general intelligence.
“We have repeatedly demonstrated the incredible potential of scaling deep learning and analyzed its implications; advocated for international governance of AGI before such calls were popular; and helped pioneer the science of assessing AI systems for catastrophic risk,” they wrote.
“There is no proven guide for how to navigate the path to artificial general intelligence.” Altman and Stockman added. “We believe that empirical understanding can help determine the way forward. We believe in achieving tremendous upside and working to mitigate significant risks; we take our role here seriously and carefully weigh the reactions to our actions.”
In January 2023, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that it has made a “billion-dollar” investment in OpenAI.