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Christiaan Hetzner, Irina Ivanova

OpenAI ex-chief scientist planned for a doomsday bunker for the day when machines become smarter than man

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in June 2023. (Credit: JACK GUEZ—AFP via Getty Images)
  • Months before he left OpenAI, Sutskever believed his AI researchers needed to be assured protection once they ultimately achieved their goal of creating artificial general intelligence, or AGI. “Of course, it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker,” he told his team

If there is one thing that Ilya Sutskever knows, it is the opportunities—and risks—that stem from the advent of artificial intelligence. 

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