OpenAI disbands preparedness team responsible for assessing dangerous AI risks: Report
Follow UsOpenAI has reportedly disbanded its preparedness team.
OpenAI's preparedness team was responsible for checking serious risks linked to advanced AI models.
The change comes as OpenAI continues to reorganise its teams and prepares for massive IPO.
OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its preparedness team, which was responsible for checking serious risks linked to advanced AI models. According to the Financial Times, the team was shut down at the end of last month. Its work included checking whether AI models could pose dangerous risks and finding ways to reduce them. The change comes as OpenAI continues to reorganise its teams and prepares for what could become one of the biggest technology IPOs. Senior employees have been moved to existing OpenAI teams where they will work on particular areas of preparedness such as cyber and bio.
SurveyThe move is part of a wider series of changes at OpenAI. The company has made several changes to its approach to AI safety and long-term risks in recent years. It has also dissolved other teams focused on areas such as AGI readiness and superalignment.
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Several senior employees connected to safety and long-term AI issues have also recently left the company. These include ethics lead Chloe Bakalar, Chief Futurist Josh Achiam and safety chief Johannes Heidecke.
Meanwhile, Dylan Scandinaro, who led the preparedness team, will now work on the potential impact of “recursive self-improving” AI.
Meanwhile, Denise Dresser, the company’s chief revenue officer, announced last week that she is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. OpenAI has already named Dali Rajic as Dresser’s replacement. He will take charge of the company’s global revenue organisation. According to the AI firm, Rajic has experience in “running disciplined, metrics-led revenue organisations that scale globally and selling to both large enterprises and technical customers.”
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Dresser’s exit announcement came just a few days after OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap announced its exit plans to start a new venture. For those unaware, Lightcap joined OpenAI in 2018, long before ChatGPT turned the company into one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence.
