OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

The ‘superalignment’ team at OpenAI – to help tame an artificial general intelligence, or AGI – has been wound down. From WIRED:

The superalignment team was not the only team pondering the question of how to keep AI under control, although it was publicly positioned as the main one working on the most far-off version of that problem. The blog post announcing the superalignment team last summer stated: “Currently, we don’t have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue.”

On the other hand, there are zero indications we’re anywhere near AGI.

Read their report here.

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