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OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

Former safety researcher William Saunders said that he didn't want to work for the "Titanic of AI," so he quit.

The former employee accused OpenAI of "prioritizing getting out newer, shinier products," just like White Star Line, the now-defunct British shipping company that built the doomed Titanic. The leader of the now-dissolved team, former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced last month that he was starting a new company called Safe Superintelligence Inc, which according to him will have a "straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product." "It is not possible to develop AGI or any new technology with zero risk," he added in an email to Business Insider after the publication pointed out that the Apollo program saw its own fair share of safety oversights.

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