Co-Founder and Chief Scientist · OpenAI · 2024
Co-led the Superalignment team and was involved in the attempted board ouster of Sam Altman in Nov 2023. After the board crisis resolved in Altman's favor, Sutskever departed and founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI).
As OpenAI's chief scientist and co-founder, Sutskever helped build the organization from a nonprofit research lab into the most prominent AI company in the world. He co-led the Superalignment team dedicated to ensuring future AI systems remain under human control. In November 2023, he joined the board's attempt to remove CEO Sam Altman — a move widely interpreted as driven by safety concerns. When the coup failed and Altman was reinstated, Sutskever's position became untenable. He departed six months later to found Safe Superintelligence Inc., a company focused exclusively on safety research with no products or revenue pressure.
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Current human-feedback alignment methods will not scale to superintelligence
“Our current alignment techniques will not scale to superintelligence.”