ChatGPT creator OpenAI is so worried about the potential dangers of smarter-than-humans AI that it's putting together a new team to ensure these advanced systems work for the good of people, not against them., OpenAI said that though"superintelligent" artificial intelligence seemed far off, it could arrive within the decade.
"Currently, we don't have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue," OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and this new team's co-head Jan Leike wrote in the blog post. And though this technology could help solve many of the world's most pressing problems, superintelligent AI"could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction," the authors wrote.
The new team — called Superalignment — plans to develop AI with human-level intelligence that can supervise superintelligent AI within the next four years.for the team. The company said it plans to dedicate 20% of its computing power towards this research, per the blog post.