Ilya Sutzkever, one of many co-founders of OpenAI, launched a brand new firm, Secure Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) only a month after leaving OpenAI.
Sutzkever, who was a long-time researcher at OpenAI, co-founded SSI with former YC accomplice Daniel Gross and former OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy.
At OpenAI, Sutzkever was an integral a part of the corporate’s efforts to enhance AI safety with the event of “superintelligent” AI techniques, which he labored on with Jan Leicke. Nevertheless, each Sutzkever and Leicke abruptly left the corporate in Could after falling out with OpenAI administration over easy methods to method AI safety. Leicke now leads the workforce at Anthropic.
Sutzkever has lengthy been listening to the extra advanced features of AI safety. In a weblog publish printed in 2023, he (co-authored with Leicke) predicted that synthetic intelligence with superhuman intelligence may emerge inside a decade — and if it does, it will not essentially be benign, requiring researching methods to manage and restrict it.
“SSI is our mission, our identify, and our total product roadmap as a result of it’s our single objective. Our workforce, buyers and enterprise mannequin are working in direction of attaining SSI. We view safety and functionality in tandem as technical challenges to be solved by revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs,” the tweet reads.
“We plan to broaden capabilities as shortly as doable, ensuring our safety at all times stays on the forefront. So we will scale with ease. Our focus means we aren’t distracted by administration overhead or product cycles, and our enterprise mannequin means security, safety and progress are insulated from short-term business pressures.”
SSI has places of work in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, the place it’s presently recruiting technical professionals.