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OpenAI’s ex-policy lead criticizes the company for ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history


A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for 'rewriting the history' of its deployment approach to potentially risky AI systems.

A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for “rewriting the history” of its deployment approach to potentially risky AI systems. “In a discontinuous world […] safety lessons come from treating the systems of today with outsized caution relative to their apparent power, [which] is the approach we took for [our AI model] GPT‑2,” OpenAI wrote. Citing the risk of malicious use, OpenAI initially refused to release GPT-2’s source code, opting instead of give selected news outlets limited access to a demo.

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