OpenAI faces another lawsuit, and several security executives leave
2024-08-07
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John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, announced on the social platform X on August 5 that he had officially left OpenAI and joined the rival generative artificial intelligence company Anthropic to conduct research on "artificial intelligence adjustment" (ensuring that artificial intelligence behaves as expected).
According to the technology media TechCrunch, Schulman said this is because he wants to deepen his focus on the field of artificial intelligence safety and engage in more practical technical work. Schulman wrote in a tweet: "I believe that at Anthropic I can gain new perspectives and do research with people who delve into the topics that interest me most. Without me, OpenAI and my team will continue to thrive."
At the end of May, OpenAI announced that it had begun developing a new artificial intelligence model that will succeed the GPT-4 technology that powers ChatGPT. The company said it expects the new model to bring "higher levels of capabilities."
However, while the artificial intelligence model is advancing by leaps and bounds, OpenAI itself is facing a large number of lawsuits and scrutiny from peers and government departments. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in a federal court in northern California on the 5th, claiming that Altman and others "manipulated him" to co-found the artificial intelligence company.
The relevant lawsuit documents show that Musk said OpenAI is trying to establish an "opaque for-profit network of associations" to put the company's commercial interests above the public interest. In addition, Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff said in an interview with the New York Times on the 5th that the new indictment contains more charges, including evidence that OpenAI violated federal extortion laws and participated in "a large number of wire fraud activities."
In addition, according to a recent report by Reuters, the Federal Trade Commission is currently reviewing potential evidence that OpenAI violated consumer protection laws. Last month, several "whistleblowers" within OpenAI filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing the company's management of illegally restricting employees from talking about its artificial intelligence technology.
In recent months, several high-profile OpenAI security leaders have also left the company, with several publicly stating that the company prioritizes the iteration of new products over safety. In May, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and Jan Leike of the Superalignment team officially resigned from OpenAI. In addition, another co-founder, Brockman, also recently said that he would extend his vacation until the end of this year. Currently, only two members of OpenAI's original 11-member founding team, including Altman, are left.
Altman, Musk, Brockman and others co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a non-profit laboratory to develop general artificial intelligence (AGI). Musk reportedly withdrew from OpenAI management in 2018 after a power struggle and withdrew funding for the company. Under financial pressure, Altman announced in 2019 that OpenAI would be transformed from a non-profit organization to a for-profit organization with a "profit cap" and reached a $13 billion financing agreement with Microsoft. Currently, the agreement is under review by the European Union Antitrust Organization.
The Paper reporter Nan Boyi and intern Zhan Chenle
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