Saunders: OpenAI prioritizes shiny products over safety like the Titanic
William Saunders · What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About · Jul 3, 2024 · at 2:36
Former OpenAI Superalignment researcher William Saunders explains to Alex Kantrowitz why he resigned from the company.
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“OpenAI claimed that their mission was to build safe and beneficial AGI, and I thought that this would mean that they would prioritize, you know, putting safety first. But over time, it started to really feel like the decisions being made by leadership were more like the white star line building the Titanic. Prioritizing getting out newer, shinier products then, you know, really feeling like NASA during the days of the Apollo program. And I really didn't want to end up working on the Titanic of AI. And so that's why I resigned.”
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