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“Neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready, and the world is also not ready,” so said senior artificial general intelligence (AGI) readiness advisor Miles Brundage in his farewell post to artificial intelligence (AI) frontrunner OpenAI on Friday.
Brundage shared on the American online platform Substack his desires to ‘spend more time working on issues that cut across the whole AI industry’ and to contemplate OpenAI’s AGI readiness without being biased as an employee.
“I don’t think this is a controversial statement among OpenAI’s leadership,” Brundage said. “That’s a different question from whether the company and the world are on track to be ready at the relevant time…”
Brundage added that he is referring to ‘readiness to safety, securely, and beneficially develop, deploy, and govern increasingly capable AI systems,’ in saying “ready for AGI.”
AGI refers to AI with the same cognitive abilities as humans, theoretically being able to learn almost anything.
His post also revealed that OpenAI’s current AGI readiness team will be dispersed among other teams.
“I will be starting a nonprofit and/or joining an existing one and will focus on AI policy research and advocacy since I think AI is unlikely to be as safe and beneficial as possible without a concerted effort to make it so,” Brundage wrote.
