Exclusive: OpenAI’s chief scientist’s views on AI’s future

"It's going to be monumental, earth-shattering."

Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI by Will Douglas Heaven Ilya Sutskever, head bowed, is deep in thought. His arms are spread wide and his fingers are splayed on the tabletop like a concert pianist about to play his first notes. We sit in silence. I've come to meet Sutskever, OpenAI's cofounder and chief scientist, in his company's unmarked office building on an unremarkable street in the Mission District of San Francisco to hear what's next for the world-tilting technology he has had a big hand in bringing about.   "Once you overcome the challenge of rogue AI, then what? Is there even room for human beings in a world with smarter AIs?" he says. Instead of building the next GPT or image maker DALL-E, Sutskever tells me his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue. Subscribe to read the full story and indulge your curiosity in a wide range of topics across AI, climate change, biotech, and more.   SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 25% View in browser | This email was sent to manojdole1.InformationTech@blogger.com. Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy MIT Technology Review · 196 Broadway, 3rd fl, · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA Copyright © 2023 MIT Technology Review, All rights reserved. Opt out of all promotional emails and newsletters from MIT Technology Review