OpenAI seems to go a step ahead for self governance, after announcing a revamped safety and security team. The news comes after OpenAI went through several public resignations and the dissolution of its former oversight body.
The new safety committee is named ‘Safety and Security Committee’. The new team will be led by board members and directors Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman. However, the irony comes in that it will even have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Other members of the new committee include internal “OpenAI technical and policy experts,” including heads of “Preparedness,” “Safety Systems,” and “Alignment Science.”
The ‘Safety Net’!
“OpenAI has recently begun training its next frontier model and we anticipate the resulting systems to bring us to the next level of capabilities on our path to AGI,” OpenAI says. Furthermore, “While we are proud to build and release models that are industry-leading on both capabilities and safety, we welcome a robust debate at this important moment” OpenAI added.
During the announcement, OpenAI explained that the initial task of the new team is to “evaluate and further develop OpenAI’s processes and safeguards over the next 90 days.”
Other members of OpenAI’s new safety team include head of preparedness Aleksander Madry, safety head Lilian Weng, head of alignment science John Schulman, security head Matt Knight, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki.
The safe road ahead!
A few days back OpenAI revealed its new voice for ChatGPT, called Sky, which sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson. Johansson then confirmed that she had denied Altman’s offers to provide a voice for ChatGPT. Later Altman explained that “Open AI never intended to make Sky sound like Johansson and that he reached out to Johansson after the company cast the voice actor.”
From what it is understood, after this incident critics argued that with two board members and Altman himself heading up the new safety board, it doesn’t seem like OpenAI is actually addressing its former workers’ concerns.
Furthermore, apart from the ‘safety team’ OpenAI seems to be testing a new AI model. However, OpenAI didn’t confirm whether it’s GPT-5 or not.
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