OpenAI Safety Hire: ‘Most People Could Die’ If We Lose Control of AI
OpenAI’s new safety hire didn’t mince words about what’s at stake in the age of AI superintelligence. “If we build superintelligence without more robust alignment I expect we will permanently lose control of it. If that happens then most people could die,” Paul Christiano, an AI safety researcher, said on Wednesday after OpenAI announced he…