OpenAI co-founder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect company scientists from ‘rapture’

OpenAI co-founder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect company scientists from ‘rapture’

In a startling revelation, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI and a key figure behind the development of ChatGPT, proposed building a doomsday bunker to protect the company’s top researchers from a potential “rapture” triggered by the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). According to a new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam […]

OpenAI scientists want an "apocalypse bunker" before the IGA surpasses human intelligence and threatens humanity with a prospect that other IA experts call illusionThe former chief scientist of OpenAI Ilya Sutskever remains convinced that AI poses an existential risk to humanity. Before leaving OpenAI, he had developed a plan to protect scientists in the laboratory before the launch of General Artificial Intelligence (GII)....