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OpenAI is an AI safety research and deployment company based in San Francisco.

Funding

In March 2017 OpenAI received a grant of $30 million from Open Philanthropy.[1]

External links

OpenAI. Official website.

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    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Open AI, Open Philanthropy.

[Question] Why aren’t you freak­ing out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?

AppliedDivinityStudiesOct 10, 2021, 1:06 PM
80 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

He­len Toner (ex-OpenAI board mem­ber): “We learned about ChatGPT on Twit­ter.”

defun 🔸May 29, 2024, 7:40 AM
123 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(x.com)

[Linkpost] State­ment from Scar­lett Jo­hans­son on OpenAI’s use of the “Sky” voice, that was shock­ingly similar to her own voice.

LinchMay 20, 2024, 11:50 PM
46 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(variety.com)

OpenAI in­tro­duces func­tion call­ing for GPT-4

micJun 20, 2023, 1:58 AM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would an An­thropic/​OpenAI merger be good for AI safety?

MNov 22, 2023, 8:21 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

New Busi­ness Wars pod­cast sea­son on Sam Alt­man and OpenAI

Eevee🔹Apr 2, 2024, 6:22 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(wondery.com)

Sam Alt­man re­turn­ing as OpenAI CEO “in prin­ci­ple”

Fermi–Dirac DistributionNov 22, 2023, 6:15 AM
55 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

GarrisonNov 23, 2023, 12:44 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

OpenAI’s new structure

AnonymousTurtleDec 27, 2024, 2:53 PM
30 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

Com­ments on OpenAI’s “Plan­ning for AGI and be­yond”

So8resMar 3, 2023, 11:01 PM
115 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­ti­cles about re­cent OpenAI departures

bruceMay 17, 2024, 5:38 PM
126 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

[Question] How in­de­pen­dent is the re­search com­ing out of OpenAI’s pre­pared­ness team?

EarthlingFeb 10, 2024, 4:59 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Jan Leike: “I’m ex­cited to join @An­throp­icAI to con­tinue the su­per­al­ign­ment mis­sion!”

defun 🔸May 28, 2024, 6:08 PM
35 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(x.com)

Com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about OpenAI

Jacob_HiltonAug 25, 2022, 2:08 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

#209 – OpenAI’s gam­bit to ditch its non­profit (Rose Chan Loui on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 27, 2024, 8:43 PM
22 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Can­cel­ling GPT subscription

adekczMay 20, 2024, 4:19 PM
26 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

What’s Go­ing on With OpenAI’s Mes­sag­ing?

Ozzie GooenMay 21, 2024, 2:22 AM
216 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

We are fight­ing a shared bat­tle (a call for a differ­ent ap­proach to AI Strat­egy)

Gideon FutermanMar 16, 2023, 2:37 PM
59 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

A tale of two Sams

Geoffrey MillerMay 21, 2024, 7:22 PM
35 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Epi­sode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

AustinMay 25, 2024, 4:15 PM
22 points
2 comments44 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

Mis­nam­ing and Other Is­sues with OpenAI’s “Hu­man Level” Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Hierarchy

DavidmanheimJul 15, 2024, 5:50 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What hap­pened to the OpenPhil OpenAI board seat?

ChristianKleineidamMar 15, 2023, 8:09 PM
52 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

AI and integrity

Nathan YoungMay 29, 2024, 8:45 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

GPT-4 is out: thread (& links)

LizkaMar 14, 2023, 8:02 PM
84 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Be­fore Alt­man’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Di­vided and Feuding

Jonathan YanNov 22, 2023, 1:01 AM
25 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

OpenAI defected, but we can take hon­est actions

RemmeltOct 21, 2024, 8:41 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The AI in­dus­try turns against its fa­vorite philosophy

Jonathan YanNov 22, 2023, 12:11 AM
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.semafor.com)

OpenAI board re­ceived let­ter warn­ing of pow­er­ful AI

JordanStoneNov 23, 2023, 12:16 AM
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.reuters.com)

Sam Alt­man /​ Open AI Dis­cus­sion Thread

John SalterNov 20, 2023, 9:21 AM
40 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Jan Leike on three kinds of al­ign­ment taxes

AkashJan 6, 2023, 11:57 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] OpenAI lead­ers call for reg­u­la­tion of “su­per­in­tel­li­gence” to re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk.

Lowe LundinMay 25, 2023, 2:14 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] OpenAI is award­ing ten 100k grants for build­ing pro­to­types of a demo­cratic pro­cess for steer­ing AI

pseudonymMay 26, 2023, 12:49 PM
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

OpenAI o1

Zach Stein-PerlmanSep 12, 2024, 6:54 PM
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Wor­ri­some Trends for Digi­tal Mind Evaluations

Derek ShillerFeb 20, 2025, 3:35 PM
72 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

NYT: Google will ‘re­cal­ibrate’ the risk of re­leas­ing AI due to com­pe­ti­tion with OpenAI

Michael HuangJan 22, 2023, 2:13 AM
173 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

GarrisonFeb 10, 2024, 7:52 PM
286 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Sam Alt­man fired from OpenAI

LarksNov 17, 2023, 9:07 PM
133 points
89 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

[Question] How com­mit­ted to AGI safety are the cur­rent OpenAI non­profit board mem­bers?

Eevee🔹Dec 2, 2024, 4:03 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Fron­tier Model Forum

Zach Stein-PerlmanJul 26, 2023, 2:30 PM
40 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.google)

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM
176 points
18 comments73 min readEA link

OpenAI’s Su­per­al­ign­ment team has opened Fast Grants

YadavDec 16, 2023, 3:41 PM
31 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

2020 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 21, 2020, 3:25 PM
155 points
16 comments68 min readEA link

80,000 hours should re­move OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

RaemonJul 3, 2024, 8:34 PM
263 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

OpenAI’s grant pro­gram for demo­cratic pro­cess for de­cid­ing what rules AI sys­tems should follow

Ronen BarJun 23, 2023, 10:46 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On AI and Compute

johncroxApr 3, 2019, 9:26 PM
39 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Ilya Sutskever has offi­cially left OpenAI

MarcusAbramovitchMay 15, 2024, 12:00 AM
37 points
24 comments1 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

Call for At­tor­neys for OpenAI Em­ploy­ees and Ex-Employees

Vilfredo's GhostMay 18, 2024, 5:27 AM
181 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

GarrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM
114 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Tech­ni­cal Primer on o1 and Deep­Seek-R1

AlexChalkFeb 9, 2025, 11:58 PM
4 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(alexchalk.net)

Emer­gency pod: Judge plants a le­gal time bomb un­der OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

80000_HoursMar 7, 2025, 7:24 PM
62 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

Luca Righetti 🔸Nov 21, 2024, 5:26 PM
82 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

A break­down of OpenAI’s revenue

dschwarzJul 10, 2024, 6:07 PM
58 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The Slip­pery Slope from DALLE-2 to Deep­fake Anarchy

stecasNov 5, 2022, 2:47 PM
55 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

I’m Cul­len O’Keefe, a Policy Re­searcher at OpenAI, AMA

Cullen 🔸Jan 11, 2020, 4:13 AM
45 points
68 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Did OpenPhil ever pub­lish their in-depth re­view of their three-year OpenAI grant?

Markus Amalthea MagnusonJul 4, 2022, 2:11 PM
128 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Publi­ca­tion de­ci­sions for large lan­guage mod­els, and their impacts

Ben CottierDec 21, 2022, 1:50 PM
14 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Any re­sponse from OpenAI (or EA in gen­eral) about the Tech­nol­ogy Re­view fea­ture on OpenAI?

qjtvaFeb 21, 2020, 9:12 AM
5 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Hiring en­g­ineers and re­searchers to help al­ign GPT-3

Paul_ChristianoOct 1, 2020, 6:52 PM
107 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on AGI or­ga­ni­za­tions and ca­pa­bil­ities work

RobBensingerDec 7, 2022, 7:46 PM
77 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

[Link] “Why Re­spon­si­ble AI Devel­op­ment Needs Co­op­er­a­tion on Safety” (OpenAI)

Milan GriffesJul 12, 2019, 1:19 AM
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

My thoughts on OpenAI’s al­ign­ment plan

AkashDec 30, 2022, 7:34 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Ru­mour] Microsoft to in­vest $10B in OpenAI, will re­ceive 75% of prof­its un­til they re­coup in­vest­ment: GPT would be in­te­grated with Office

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Jan 10, 2023, 11:43 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Scott Alexan­der re­acts to OpenAI’s lat­est post

AkashMar 11, 2023, 10:24 PM
105 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI is start­ing a new “Su­per­in­tel­li­gence al­ign­ment” team and they’re hiring

alejandroJul 5, 2023, 6:27 PM
100 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

AXRP Epi­sode 24 - Su­per­al­ign­ment with Jan Leike

DanielFilanJul 27, 2023, 4:56 AM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(axrp.net)

OpenAI’s o1 tried to avoid be­ing shut down, and lied about it, in evals

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ Dec 6, 2024, 3:25 PM
23 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.transformernews.ai)

ChatGPT bug leaked users’ con­ver­sa­tion histories

Ian TurnerMar 27, 2023, 12:17 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

Re­search Sum­mary: Fore­cast­ing with Large Lan­guage Models

Damien LairdApr 2, 2023, 10:52 AM
4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(damienlaird.substack.com)

Scal­able And Trans­fer­able Black-Box Jailbreaks For Lan­guage Models Via Per­sona Modulation

soroushjpNov 7, 2023, 6:00 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

How much do mar­kets value Open AI?

Ben_West🔸May 14, 2023, 7:28 PM
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Ilya: The AI sci­en­tist shap­ing the world

David VargaNov 20, 2023, 12:43 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Sam Alt­man gives me bad vibes

throwaway790May 31, 2023, 5:15 PM
−11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware of the new scal­ing paradigm

JohanEASep 19, 2024, 5:03 PM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #37: US Launches An­titrust In­ves­ti­ga­tions Plus, re­cent crit­i­cisms of OpenAI and An­thropic, and a sum­mary of Si­tu­a­tional Awareness

Center for AI SafetyJun 18, 2024, 6:08 PM
15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Fif­teen Law­suits against OpenAI

RemmeltMar 9, 2024, 12:22 PM
55 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI an­nounces new mem­bers to board of directors

Will Howard🔹Mar 9, 2024, 11:27 AM
47 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(openai.com)

AI safety ad­vo­cates should con­sider pro­vid­ing gen­tle push­back fol­low­ing the events at OpenAI

I_machinegun_KellyDec 22, 2023, 9:05 PM
86 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

#176 – The fi­nal push for AGI, un­der­stand­ing OpenAI’s lead­er­ship drama, and red-team­ing fron­tier mod­els (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJan 4, 2024, 4:00 PM
15 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

Microsoft in­vests 1b$ in OpenAI

EdoAradJul 22, 2019, 6:29 PM
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theverge.com)

AI Safety Newslet­ter #42: New­som Ve­toes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Gover­nance Summary

Center for AI SafetyOct 1, 2024, 8:33 PM
10 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

I read ev­ery ma­jor AI lab’s safety plan so you don’t have to

sarahhwDec 16, 2024, 2:12 PM
67 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(longerramblings.substack.com)

OpenAI and An­thropic Donate Cred­its for AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark Tournament

christianJul 17, 2024, 9:50 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why Stop AI is bar­ri­cad­ing OpenAI

RemmeltOct 14, 2024, 7:12 AM
−19 points
28 comments6 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Miles Brundage re­signed from OpenAI, and his AGI readi­ness team was disbanded

GarrisonOct 23, 2024, 11:42 PM
57 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

o3

Zach Stein-PerlmanDec 20, 2024, 9:00 PM
84 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

o3 is not be­ing re­leased to the pub­lic. First they are only giv­ing ac­cess to ex­ter­nal safety testers. You can ap­ply to get early ac­cess to do safety testing

Kat WoodsDec 20, 2024, 6:30 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

We are in a New Paradigm of AI Progress—OpenAI’s o3 model makes huge gains on the tough­est AI bench­marks in the world

GarrisonDec 22, 2024, 9:45 PM
26 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Emer­gency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI’s party (with Rose Chan Loui)

80000_HoursFeb 14, 2025, 4:29 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Will OpenAI’s o3 re­duce NVi­dia’s moat?

Ebenezer DukakisJan 3, 2025, 2:21 AM
9 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Chi­nese Re­searchers Crack ChatGPT: Repli­cat­ing OpenAI’s Ad­vanced AI Model

Evan_GaensbauerJan 5, 2025, 3:50 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.geeky-gadgets.com)

Alt­man on the board, AGI, and superintelligence

OscarD🔸Jan 6, 2025, 2:37 PM
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(blog.samaltman.com)

The cur­rent state of RSPs

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 4, 2024, 4:00 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
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