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The co-founder of OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a “rapture” triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book.
Ilya Sutskever, the brains behind ChatGPT, told scientists at OpenAI in the summer of 2023: “Once we all get into the bunker…”
The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a “rapture” triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book. The plan, he explained, would be to protect OpenAI’s core scientists from what he anticipated could be geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI — an artificial intelligence that exceeds human capabilities — is released. The tension between those fears and OpenAI’s aggressive commercial ambitions came to a head later in 2023 when Sutskever, along with then-Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, helped orchestrate a brief boardroom coup that ousted Altman from the company.
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