OpenAI's 'Super Alignment' Team Disbands

TapTechNews May 18th news, in July 2023 OpenAI established the 'Super Alignment' team. Less than 1 year since its establishment, the latest news is that the team has disbanded with the departure of Ilya Sutskever.

OpenAI put forward the concept of 'Super Alignment', meaning to control superintelligence to do what humans want it to do. And the team was jointly responsible by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and would control 20% of the company's computing power.

The 'palace intrigue' drama of OpenAI season 2 has begun. TapTechNews cited Wired's report that after Ilya announced his departure, the team's co-leader Jan Leike also officially announced his departure, and the team's work has now been merged into other research work of OpenAI.

Ilya helped Sam Altman found OpenAI in 2015 and set the direction for the research of ChatGPT, but in the 'palace intrigue' last November, he was also one of the four board members who supported the dismissal of Altman.

After Ilya announced his departure, the other leader of the 'Super Alignment' team, former DeepMind researcher Jan Leike also posted the news of his resignation on X.

Sutskever and Leike did not respond to requests for comment. He wrote: The company's development trajectory is a miracle, and I believe that under the current leadership, OpenAI will create an AGI that is both safe and beneficial.