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Thursday, Oct 24

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Another safety researcher is leaving OpenAI

Mile Brundage, a senior policy advisor and head of the AGI Readiness team at OpenAI, is leaving the company and the team he oversaw will be disbanded.

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Departing OpenAI leader says no company is ready for AGI

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Miles Brundage, OpenAI’s senior adviser for the readiness of AGI (aka human-level artificial intelligence), delivered a stark warning as he announced his departure on Wednesday: no one is prepared for artificial general intelligence,…

OpenAI’s ‘AGI Readiness’ chief quits — ‘I want to be less biased’

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Miles Brundage says neither OpenAI nor the world are ready for artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI disbands another safety team, as head advisor for 'AGI Readiness' resigns

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OpenAI is disbanding its "AGI Readiness" safety team, which advised the company on its capacity to handle the outcomes of increasingly powerful AI.

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Ex-OpenAI staffer claims the ChatGPT maker leverages "the fair use doctrine" to violate copyright law and destroy the internet

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Former OpenAI staffer Suchir Balaji recently claimed that the ChatGPT maker is breaking the U.S. copyright law. OpenAI relies on the fair use doctrine to use of copyrighted content and internet data to train AI models without authorization…

OpenAI's ChatGPT can be tricked into being an 'accessory' to money laundering schemes yet 54% of banking jobs reportedly

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Users can reportedly leverage ChatGPT's AI smarts to solicit advice on committing crimes, including money laundering and exporting illegal firearms to sanctioned countries.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

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Sounding the Alarm A former OpenAI researcher is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging that OpenAI violated copyright law to train its AI models — and, what's more, arguing that OpenAI's current business…

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OpenAI's AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn't ready For What It's Building

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Unprepared The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned — and is warning that nobody is ready for what's coming next. In a post on his personal Substack…

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OpenAI Comes Up With Revolutionary Model That Generates Multimedia Using AI In Fraction Of A Second

Several researchers at OpenAI just published a new paper that described the creation of a revolutionary AI model. This one is designed to produce multimedia including images, video, and audio in nearly a tenth of a second. The new kind of…

Lilian Weng, vice president of research and safety at OpenAI, leads risk management for AI models

OpenAI VP Lilian Weng leads OpenAI's safety-focused preparedness team, tackling significant risks of cutting-edge AI models.

Matt Garman is leading AWS in an AI race against Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Matt Garman became CEO of AWS earlier in 2024. He took the helm as the cloud pioneer battles for supremacy in generative AI.

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy's latest company Eureka Labs, aims to personalize education with AI

Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI cofounder now leads AI-education platform Eureka Labs.

Wednesday, Oct 23

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Former OpenAI Staffer Says the Company Is Breaking Copyright Law and Destroying the Internet

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Is OpenAI breaking U.S. copyright law? A former employee of the company says yes.

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Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI

techcrunch.com

Miles Brundage, a longtime policy researcher at OpenAI and senior advisor to the company’s AGI Readiness team, has left. In a post on X today and an essay on his personal blog, Brundage said that he believes he’ll have more impact as a…

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Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data violated the law and ChatGPT damages the internet; he left in August 2024 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data violated the law and ChatGPT damages the internet; he left in August 2024 — Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher…

Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law

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Suchir Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot.

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AI on the trading floor: Morgan Stanley expands OpenAI-powered chatbot tools to Wall Street division

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Nearly 50% of employees at Morgan Stanley and 60% at JPMorgan Chase have access to generative AI software provided by OpenAI.

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Microsoft, OpenAI Giving News Outlets $10M to Use AI Tools

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Microsoft and OpenAI announced that they are offering a select group of media outlets up to $10 million ($2.5 million in cash plus $2.5 million worth of "software and enterprise credits" from each) to try out artificial intelligence tools…

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Ex-Apple Employee Vahid Kazemi Joins OpenAI as Member of Technical Staff

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Vahid Kazemi, who is an ex-Apple and ex-Google employee joined Sam Altman-run OpenAI as a technical staff member. He also worked in other two more leading tech companies in the market.