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> OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophi
by paxys 2mo ago
> OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them.
> The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject.
Seems pretty reasonable. Given everything that happened with Huggingface and similar incidents it’s clear that the team wasn’t doing shit.
- cyanydeez 2mo agoOr it came to it's natural conclusion: "Yes, there are catastrophic risks" But, you know, it's a business, so now it knows it has catastrophic risks. What, are you going to just stop building the torment nexus?
- DonsDiscountGas 2mo agoOr maybe they weren't allowed to do anything effective. I don't know why you give OpenAI such a big benefit of the doubt.
- estearum 2mo agoIs it "clear" from a car accident fatality that seatbelts and airbags aren't doing shit?
- dgellow 2mo agoThey just had their most important learning experience and you get rid of them? That doesn't sound reasonable to me. It's like firing your SREs after an incident