cryptogameappsios| Report: OpenAI has disbanded the AI risk team led by former chief scientist Ilya

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OpenAI internal reshuffleCryptogameappsiosNot only has Ilya and his confidant Jan Leike left, but the "super intelligent alignment team" they co-led was confirmed to be disbanded on Friday.

On Tuesday, Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and chief scientist of CEO Sam Altman, who was involved in the palace struggle, left his job, hours before another co-head of the super smart alignment team, Jan Leike, also announced his departure.

On Friday, OpenAI confirmed that the "super smart alignment team" co-led by Ilya and his confidant Jan Leike had been disbanded. After that, the team's research work will be integrated into other OpenAI research groups. At this point, the palace fighting incident that once almost led to the disintegration of OpenAI has finally settled.

Jan Leike publicly revealed some of the reasons for his departure on X on Friday. His subtext is that he and OpenAI executives have long disagreed over the company's core priorities, and eventually the differences have become irreconcilable. The team has encountered major obstacles in promoting its research projects and striving for computing resources, and the lack of resources will seriously affect the progress and quality of research.

According to public data, the Super Intelligence alignment team was set up in July last year to study how to safely develop artificial intelligence systems that are much smarter than humans, to ensure that general artificial intelligence (AGI) benefits all mankind without getting out of control and endangering humans. This is why OpenAI pays special attention to how to "align" such super-intelligent AI-that is, to ensure that their behavior is consistent with human values and goals. This is one of the reasons why they set up a "super intelligent alignment team". OpenAI says the team will receive 20 per cent of the company's computing resources.

OpenAI recently unveiled a new version of ChatGPT, a "multimodal" AI model called GPT-4o, which can interact with the world in a more natural and human way. In an online demo, GPT-4o shows the ability to simulate human emotions and have natural conversations with users, and even try to flirt with users. However, this technological progress has also raised concerns about ethical issues such as AI invasion of privacy, emotional manipulation and threats to network security, so AI regulation has always been a hot topic.

Musk commented on the news that OpenAI's long-term artificial intelligence risk team had been disbanded: "this shows that security is not a top priority for OpenAI."

The dissolution of the team triggered a big guess among netizens that members of OpenAI were still "separated".

Netizens on X have posted posts expressing concern about the dissolution of the team:

"I will wait for more information to be disclosed, but if most members of the super alignment team are cleaned up in just a few months, it suggests that there has been a serious betrayal of trust rather than an ordinary internal adjustment. It's unusual for the whole team to leave like this. "

OpenAI's super alignment team has been promised 20 per cent of the company's computing resources, according to a person on the team. But a small number of requests are often rejected, hampering the team's work. "

The news of Ilya's departure on Tuesday attracted a lot of attention because he was not only one of the co-founders of OpenAI, but also decided to fire CEO Altman in November with three other board members. However, over the next five days, Altman was reappointed as CEO due to mass protests by employees, while Ilya and two other directors resigned from the board.

'The trajectory of OpenAI is miraculous, and I believe OpenAI will build a safe and useful AGI under the leadership of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Mira Murati, as well as the excellent research leadership of Jakub Pachocki, 'Ilya said on social media after leaving office.

Altman responded on X that the parting of Ilya and OpenAI was very sad.

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