The big news of the week is OpenAI introducing the Superalignment Taskforce. OpenAI is pledging 20% of compute secured to date towards a four year effort to solve the core technical challenges of superintelligence alignment. They plan to share the results broadly. Co-founder and OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever will lead the effort alongside Head of Alignment Jan Leike, and they are hiring to fill out the team.

That is serious firepower. The devil, as always, is in the details. Will this be an alignment effort that can work, an alignment effort that cannot possibly work, an initial doomed effort capable of pivoting, or a capabilities push in alignment clothing?

It is hard to know. I will be covering these questions in a post soon, and want to take the time to process and get it right. In the meantime, the weekly post covers the many other [...]

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