Chatgpt manufacturer Openai proposed building a day -to -day bunker that would accommodate the company’s best researchers in the event of a “abduction” caused by the issuance of a new form of artificial intelligence that could overcome people’s cognitive abilities, according to a new book.
Ilya Sutskyr, the trusted man, was the brain behind the chatgpt, gathered a meeting with the leading scientists in Openai in the summer of 2023 during which he said: “Once we all get into the bunker …”
A confused researcher interrupted him. “I’m sorry,” the researcher asked, “bunker?”
“We will definitely build a bunker before we leave Agi,” Sutskyr replied, according to one participant.
The plan, he explained, would be the protection of Openai’s essential scientists from what he predicted could be geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once Agi – an artificial intelligence that transcends human abilities – issued.
“Of course,” he added, “will be optional if you want to get into the bunker.”
The exchange was first reported by Karen Hao, author of the next book “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares at Sam Altman’s Openai.”
An essay adapted from the book was published by the Atlantic.
The bunker’s comment from Sutskyr was not alone. Two other sources told Hao that Sutskyr had regularly referred to the bunker in internal discussions.
An Openai researcher went so far as to say that “there is a group of people – Ilya being one of them – who believe that Agi will bring a kidnapping. Literally, a kidnapping.”
Although Sutskyr refused to comment on the issue, the idea of a safe refuge for scientists developing AGI underlines the extraordinary anxieties that capture some of the minds behind the most powerful technology in the world.
Sutskyr has long been seen as a kind of mystic within Openai, known for discussing it in moral and even metaphysical terms, according to the author.
At the same time, it is also one of the most technically talented minds after chatgt and other large language models that have driven the company to global importance.
In recent years, Sutskyr has begun sharing his time between accelerating him and promoting him, according to colleagues.
The idea of Agi that causes civilization unrest is not isolated for Sutskyr.
In May 2023, Openai Sam Altman’s CEO co-signed a public letter warning that technologies could pose a “risk of extinction” for humanity. But while the letter was required to form regulatory discussions, the bunker conversation suggests deeper, more personal fear among the Openai leadership.
The tension between those fears and the aggressive trade ambitions of Openai came to the head later in 2023 when Sutskyr, along with the then technology officer Mira Murati, helped orchestrate a short coup aboard Altman by the company.
Essential to their concerns was the belief that Altman was bypassing internal security protocols and consolidating excessive control over the company’s future, said Hao sources.
Sutskyr, once a believer set in the original Openai mission to develop Agi for the good of mankind, is reported to have grown increasingly disappointed.
He and Murat told both Board members that they no longer trusted Altman to lead the organization responsibly in its final purpose.
“I don’t think Sam is the boy who should have a finger on the Agi button,” Sutskyr said, according to the notes considered by Hao.
The board’s decision to remove Altman was short -lived.
Within days, the increasing pressure from investors, employees and Microsoft led to his return. Both Sutskyr and Murati eventually left the company.
The proposed bunker – while it has never been officially announced or planned – has come to symbolize the extremity of belief between him.
He captures the size of what Openai’s own leaders fear that their technology could bring out, and the length in which some were prepared to go to expect what they saw as a new transformative, perhaps cataclysmic era.
The post has requested comment from Openai and Sutskyr.
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