Ilya Sutskever & Jan Leike
The former leaders of OpenAI’s Superalignment team simultaneously quit this week, one day after the company released its impressive GPT-4 Omni model. The goal of Superalignment, outlined during its July 2023 launch, was to develop methods for “steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue.”
At the time, OpenAI noted it was trying to build these superintelligent models but did not have a solution for controlling them. It’s unclear if the departure of Leike and Sutskever was related to safety concerns, but their absence certainly leaves some room for speculation.
