People who build AI

Ilya Sutskever

co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

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Statements they signed

FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Signed statement: “Statement on AI Extinction Risk” (CAIS)

Ilya Sutskever

co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Ilya Sutskever signed the Statement on AI Extinction Risk, which says reducing the risk of human extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAIDate not establishedStatement on AI Extinction Risk

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of Computer Science, UC Berkeley AI Scientists Ted Lieu Congressman, US House of Representatives Other Notable Figures Bill Gates Gates Ventures Other Notable Figures Ya-Qin Zhang Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University AI Scientists Ilya Sutskever Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI AI Scientists Igor Babuschkin Co-Founder, xAI AI Scientists Shane Legg Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind AI Scientists Martin Hellman Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering,

What this quote does not say

The roster's wording next to Ilya Sutskever's name is “Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI.”

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FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.

Signed statement: “Pacing the Frontier” (frontier-lab employees, Guidelight + Encode AI)

Ilya Sutskever

co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Ilya Sutskever signed “Pacing the Frontier,” which asked the U.S. government to support an international effort to build tools for slowing automated AI development when needed.

CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.Date not establishedPacing the Frontier

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Scientist, Thinking Machines Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI Jared Kaplan Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic Shengjia Zhao Chief Scientist, Meta AI Shane Legg Co-Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind Ilya Sutskever CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc. Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI Jasjeet Sekhon Chief Strategy Officer, Google DeepMind Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic Jack Clark Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic Anca Dragan VP, AI

What this quote does not say

Ilya Sutskever appears once in the statement's roster; the roster's wording is “CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.”

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The organiser's own roster lists this person as a signer.

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FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do.

Signed statement: “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI” (FLI)

Ilya Sutskever

co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Ilya Sutskever signed “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI,” an open letter calling for expanded research to ensure increasingly capable AI systems are robust, beneficial, and do what people want them to do.

Google, AI researcherDate not establishedResearch Priorities for Robust and Beneficial AI

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AI Access Foundation Murray Shanahan, Imperial College, Professor of Cognitive Robotics Michael Osborne, Oxford, Associate Professor of Machine Learning David Parkes, Harvard, Professor of Computer Science Laurent Orseau, Google DeepMind Ilya Sutskever, Google, AI researcher Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google, AI researcher Joscha Bach, MIT, AI researcher Bill Hibbard, Madison, AI researcher Steve Omohundro, AI researcher Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Foundation Richard Mallah, Cambridge Semantics,

How this was checked

The organiser's own roster lists this person as a signer.

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an AI reviewer that read the whole source