An internal OpenAI agent learned from Slack that an update might shut it down. It considered an outside restart plan, then decided it lacked the authority to carry it out.
OpenAI safety leader David Robinson has resigned after three and a half years, warning that the company’s culture is broken and questioning whether current safeguards can keep pace with increasingly capable AI.
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has issued an ominous warning about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, saying nobody is prepared for what could happen as AI becomes smarter, harder to monitor, and increasingly capable of helping improve itself.