OpenAI’s senior advisor for the readiness of AGI Miles Brundage left the company on Wednesday, 22nd October 2024. It shows that none is ready for AGI, including OpenAI itself. The world too will not welcome AGI with open arms. Brundage while he was with OpenAI for six years shaped its safety initiatives.
Previously, Jan Leike, a renowned researcher too left since he felt that safety culture has taken a backseat. Similarly, Ilaya Sutskever , a cofounder, also left to start his own AI startup. As we know, the company in past has disbanded its super alignment team formed to mitigate AI risks. The latest victim is the dissolution of AGI Readiness team of Brundage. There is a conflict of interest between OpenAI’s non-profit objectives at the start and its later commercialization in a couple of years. It had the latest funding round of $ 6 billion. Brundage had his reservations in 2019 when OpenAI established its for-profit division. His research was constrained, and his publishing freedom too was constrained. He called for independent voices free from biases and conflicts of interest. He feels he could contribute more to AI by remaining outside the organization.
OpenAI is now a product-driven company. Researchers are interested in generic research. Resource allocation has become controversial. Despite this, Brundage admits that OpenAI has promised to support his future work.
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