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OpenAI Scraps Team That Researched Risk of 'Rogue' AI


OpenAI reportedly disbanded its Superalignment team days after its co-leaders left.

The former executive published a series of posts on Friday explaining his departure, which he said came after disagreements about the company's core priorities for "quite some time." The Superalignment team's objective was to "solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment in four years," a goal that the company admitted was "incredibly ambitious." The team reportedly disbanded days after its leaders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, announced their resignations earlier this week.

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