Safe Superintelligence, founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, secures $2 billion funding at a $32 billion valuation despite having no public product, with major investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, and Nvidia backing the 20-employee startup developing AI models on Google's TPUs.
OpenAI plans to verify organizations before granting access to advanced AI models, prioritizing safety by mitigating potential misuse, intellectual property theft, and unintended consequences while enabling responsible development.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence secures $2 billion at a staggering $32 billion valuation, with the funding round led by Greenoaks, in a bid to create a 'safe superintelligence' product, adding to the $1 billion previously raised.
Ex-Google AI Chief Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), backed by $1 billion, is tapping Google Cloud's powerful TPU chips in its quest to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems, marking another AI computing deal between Google and a former employee's startup.
A sweeping coalition of Nobel laureates, labor unions, faith leaders, and entertainers launches the Pro-Human AI Declaration, demanding strict AI safeguards including bans on unsafe superintelligence development, mandatory off-switches, child protections, and independent oversight to keep humans firmly in control of increasingly powerful AI systems.
Tesla's robotaxi dreams face setbacks as its Full Self-Driving system faces safety scrutiny and CEO Elon Musk's political backlash leads to protests and record trade-ins, delaying the promised autonomous ride-hailing service until June 2023 in Austin.
DeepMind's 145-page paper warns of potential 'severe harm' from advanced AI by 2030, proposing safeguards like access controls and AI interpretability, though some experts dispute the premises.
As AI agents gain autonomy across applications, offering convenience, it's crucial to strike a balance by maintaining human oversight and control to mitigate privacy, safety, and security risks and ensure AI serves human interests.
Uber halted its self-driving car tests in Arizona after a fatal pedestrian crash, while resuming operations in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, and hired former NTSB Chair Christopher Hart as a safety adviser, demonstrating a commitment to addressing safety concerns.
California's new AI bill, SB 53, proposes whistleblower protections for employees raising concerns about critically risky AI systems and establishes a public computing cluster, CalCompute, amid ongoing debates around AI safety and existential risk.