The Download: OpenAI's top scientist on AGI, and gene therapy to restore hearing

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company's flagship generative AI models. Instead his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue. A lot of what Sutskever says is wild. But not nearly as wild as it would have sounded just one or two years ago. He thinks ChatGPT just might be conscious (if you squint).