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OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI—but never delivered, sources say
The company's Superalignment team had its requests for computer power repeatedly rejected even though they never approached the 20% threshold, sources say.
Bob McGrew, OpenAI’s vice president of research, was the executive who informed the team that these requests were being declined but, the sources said, but others at the company, including chief technology officer Mira Murati were involved in making the decisions. Five sources familiar with the Superalignment team’s work backed up Leike’s account, saying that the problems with accessing compute worsened in the wake of the pre-Thanksgiving showdown between Altman and the board of the OpenAI non-profit foundation. “We need to have a very tight feedback loop, rigorous testing, careful consideration at every step, world-class security, and harmony of safety and capabilities,” Brockman and Altman wrote, adding that “empirical understanding can help inform the way forward.”
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