As speculation swirls around the leadership shakeup at OpenAI announced Friday, more attention is turning to a man at the center of it all: Ilya Sutskever. The company’s chief scientist, Sutskever also serves on the OpenAI board that ousted CEO Sam Altman yesterday, claiming somewhat cryptically that Altman had not been “consistently candid” with it.
Last month, Sutskever, who generally shies away from the media spotlight, sat down with MIT Technology Review for a long interview. The Israeli-Canadian told the magazine that his new focus was on how to prevent an artificial superintelligence—which can outmatch humans but as far as we know doesn’t yet exist—from going rogue.
