OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity--even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last year and during the company's recent governance crisis, its commercial ambitions have been more prominent. Now, the company says a new research group working on wrangling the super-smart AIs of the future is starting to bear fruit. "AGI is very fast approaching," says Leopold Aschenbrenner, a researcher at OpenAI involved with the Superalignment research team established in July. "We're gonna see superhuman models, they're gonna have vast capabilities and they could be very, very dangerous, and we don't yet have the methods to control them."