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OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously
OpenAI and its competitors are racing as fast as they can to develop systems that are as capable and as autonomous as possible.
In a Twitter thread immediately following his resignation, he wrote that in recent months, his team “ha[d] been sailing against the wind … struggling for compute” needed to “get th[eir] crucial research done.” Leike lamented that, at OpenAI, “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” This leaves just two possibilities: Either the departures of Sutskever, Leike, Kokotajlo, O’Keefe, and the ousted board members signal a seismic shift inside OpenAI against taking safety seriously. Under this theory, the weird nonprofit ownership structure, the financially uninterested board, the statements about existential risk, Superalignment, and the 20 percent compute pledge would have to be written off as bizarre pieces of performance art.
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