Two former OpenAI researchers who resigned this 12 months over security issues say they’re disenchanted however not stunned by OpenAI’s choice to oppose California’s invoice to forestall AI disasters, SB 1047. Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders beforehand warned that OpenAI is in a “reckless” race for dominance.
“Sam Altman, our former boss, has repeatedly known as for AI regulation,” they write in a letter that was shared with Politico and which urges California Governor Gavin Newsom to signal the invoice. “Now, when precise regulation is on the desk, he opposes it.” The 2 add that, “With applicable regulation, we hope OpenAI might but dwell as much as its mission assertion of constructing AGI safely.”
Responding to the previous workers, an OpenAI spokesperson mentioned the startup, “strongly disagrees with the mischaracterization of our place on SB 1047,” in an announcement to TechCrunch. The spokesperson pointed to AI payments in Congress OpenAI has endorsed, noting that “frontier AI security rules needs to be carried out on the federal degree due to their implications for nationwide safety and competitiveness.”
OpenAI rival Anthropic has expressed help for the invoice whereas presenting particular issues and asking for amendments. A number of have since been included, and on Thursday, CEO Dario Amodei wrote to Newsom, saying the present invoice’s “advantages doubtless outweigh its prices,” whereas not absolutely endorsing the invoice.
