OpenAI

TagLast edit: 22 Jul 2022 14:34 UTC by Leo

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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Related entries

AI safety | Anthropic

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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?

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC

80 points

22 comments2 min readEA link

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

defun 🔸29 May 2024 7:40 UTC

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.

Linch20 May 2024 23:50 UTC

46 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(variety.com)

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

So8res3 Mar 2023 23:01 UTC

115 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

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

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

OpenAI introduces function calling for GPT-4

mic20 Jun 2023 1:58 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO “in principle”

Fermi–Dirac Distribution22 Nov 2023 6:15 UTC

55 points

37 comments1 min readEA link

Is effective altruism really to blame for the OpenAI debacle?

Garrison23 Nov 2023 0:44 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

New Business Wars podcast season on Sam Altman and OpenAI

Eevee🔹2 Apr 2024 6:22 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(wondery.com)

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

80000_Hours27 Nov 2024 20:43 UTC

22 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

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

defun 🔸28 May 2024 18:08 UTC

35 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Common misconceptions about OpenAI

Jacob_Hilton25 Aug 2022 14:08 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Earthling10 Feb 2024 16:59 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Articles about recent OpenAI departures

bruce17 May 2024 17:38 UTC

126 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

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

Michael Huang22 Jan 2023 2:13 UTC

173 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

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

Ronen Bar23 Jun 2023 10:46 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

On AI and Compute

johncrox3 Apr 2019 21:26 UTC

39 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC

155 points

16 comments68 min readEA link

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStone23 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC

176 points

18 comments73 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Jan Leike on three kinds of alignment taxes

Akash6 Jan 2023 23:57 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

GPT-4 is out: thread (& links)

Lizka14 Mar 2023 20:02 UTC

84 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

What happened to the OpenPhil OpenAI board seat?

ChristianKleineidam15 Mar 2023 20:09 UTC

52 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

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

Gideon Futerman16 Mar 2023 14:37 UTC

59 points

11 comments15 min readEA link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

Larks17 Nov 2023 21:07 UTC

133 points

91 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Frontier Model Forum

Zach Stein-Perlman26 Jul 2023 14:30 UTC

40 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.google)

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

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 1:01 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 0:11 UTC

14 points

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(www.semafor.com)

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John Salter20 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC

40 points

36 comments1 min readEA link

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

Lowe Lundin25 May 2023 14:14 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

pseudonym26 May 2023 12:49 UTC

36 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

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

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC

280 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

OpenAI’s Superalignment team has opened Fast Grants

Yadav16 Dec 2023 15:41 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

OpenAI o1

Zach Stein-Perlman12 Sep 2024 18:54 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

260 points

79 comments3 min readEA link

Ilya Sutskever has officially left OpenAI

MarcusAbramovitch15 May 2024 0:00 UTC

37 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

Call for Attorneys for OpenAI Employees and Ex-Employees

Vilfredo's Ghost18 May 2024 5:27 UTC

181 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Cancelling GPT subscription

adekcz20 May 2024 16:19 UTC

26 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?

Ozzie Gooen21 May 2024 2:22 UTC

213 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

A tale of two Sams

Geoffrey Miller21 May 2024 19:22 UTC

31 points

24 comments2 min readEA link

Episode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

Austin25 May 2024 16:15 UTC

22 points

2 comments44 min readEA link

(manifund.substack.com)

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

Davidmanheim15 Jul 2024 5:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AI and integrity

Nathan Young29 May 2024 20:45 UTC

15 points

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(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹2 Dec 2024 4:03 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Sam Altman gives me bad vibes

throwaway79031 May 2023 17:15 UTC

−11 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on AGI organizations and capabilities work

RobBensinger7 Dec 2022 19:46 UTC

77 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

Paul_Christiano1 Oct 2020 18:52 UTC

107 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

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

Garrison13 Nov 2024 17:00 UTC

108 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Beware of the new scaling paradigm

Johan de Kock19 Sep 2024 17:03 UTC

9 points

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

Cullen 🔸11 Jan 2020 4:13 UTC

45 points

68 comments1 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 Safety18 Jun 2024 18:08 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

Luca Righetti 🔸21 Nov 2024 17:26 UTC

82 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

Remmelt9 Mar 2024 12:22 UTC

55 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

Will Howard🔹9 Mar 2024 11:27 UTC

47 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

(openai.com)

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

I_machinegun_Kelly22 Dec 2023 21:05 UTC

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_Hours4 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

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

qjtva21 Feb 2020 9:12 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI and Anthropic Donate Credits for AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament

christian17 Jul 2024 21:50 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

A breakdown of OpenAI’s revenue

dschwarz10 Jul 2024 18:07 UTC

58 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Center for AI Safety1 Oct 2024 20:33 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

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

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆10 Jan 2023 23:43 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Microsoft invests 1b$ in OpenAI

EdoArad22 Jul 2019 18:29 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.theverge.com)

My thoughts on OpenAI’s alignment plan

Akash30 Dec 2022 19:34 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Akash11 Mar 2023 22:24 UTC

105 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

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

sarahhw16 Dec 2024 14:12 UTC

59 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

(longerramblings.substack.com)

Why Stop AI is barricading OpenAI

Remmelt14 Oct 2024 7:12 UTC

−22 points

28 comments6 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

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

Alejandro Ortega5 Jul 2023 18:27 UTC

100 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

The Slippery Slope from DALLE-2 to Deepfake Anarchy

stecas5 Nov 2022 14:47 UTC

55 points

11 comments17 min readEA link

AXRP Episode 24 - Superalignment with Jan Leike

DanielFilan27 Jul 2023 4:56 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(axrp.net)

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

Garrison23 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC

57 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

Greg_Colbourn6 Dec 2024 15:25 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.transformernews.ai)

ChatGPT bug leaked users’ conversation histories

Ian Turner27 Mar 2023 0:17 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

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

Milan_Griffes12 Jul 2019 1:19 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Research Summary: Forecasting with Large Language Models

Damien Laird2 Apr 2023 10:52 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(damienlaird.substack.com)

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

soroushjp7 Nov 2023 18:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

o3

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Dec 2024 21:00 UTC

61 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Publication decisions for large language models, and their impacts

Ben Cottier21 Dec 2022 13:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

How much do markets value Open AI?

Ben_West🔸14 May 2023 19:28 UTC

39 points

13 comments4 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 Woods20 Dec 2024 18:30 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

David Varga20 Nov 2023 12:43 UTC

6 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

The current state of RSPs

Zach Stein-Perlman4 Nov 2024 16:00 UTC

19 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Markus Amalthea Magnuson4 Jul 2022 14:11 UTC

128 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

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