OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it
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- OpenAI has disbanded its team focused on the long-term risks of artificial intelligence, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC.
- The news comes days after both team leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, announced their departures from the Microsoft-backed startup.
- OpenAI’s Superalignment team, announced in 2023, has been working to achieve “scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.”
- At the time, OpenAI said it would commit 20% of its computing power to the initiative over four years.
