OpenAI sets up panel to evaluate AI safety

Firm will publicly share an update on adopted recommendations

San Francisco, May 28: OpenAI has created a board committee to evaluate the safety and security of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, a governance change made weeks after its top executive on the subject resigned and it effectively disbanded his internal team.

The new committee will spend 90 days evaluating the safeguards in OpenAI’s technology before giving a report. “Following the full board’s review, OpenAI will publicly share an update on adopted recommendations in a manner that is consistent with safety and security,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

OpenAI also said that it has recently started to train its latest AI model.

The private firm’s recent rapid advances in AI have raised concerns about how it manages the technology’s potential dangers. Those worries intensified last fall when chief executive officer Sam Altman was briefly ousted in a boardroom coup after clashing with co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever over how quickly to develop AI products and steps to limit harms.

Those concerns returned this month after Sutskever and a key deputy, Jan Leike, left the company. The scientists ran OpenAI’s so-called

● FIRM’S RECENT rapid advances in AI have raised concerns about how it manages the technology’s potential dangers. Those worries intensified last fall when CEO Sam Altman was briefly ousted.

super alignment team, which focused on longterm threats of superhuman AI.

Following Sutskever’s departure, OpenAI dissolved his team. The company said on Tuesday that this particular work would continue under its research unit and John Schulman, a co-founder with the new title of Head of Alignment Science.

The company’s new safety committee will consist of three board members chairman Bret Taylor, Quora chief executive officer Adam D’Angelo and ex-Sony Entertainment executive Nicole Seligman - along with six employees, including Schulman and Altman.

OpenAI said it would continue to consult outside experts.