This is the full text of a post from "The Obsolete Newsletter," a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race for Machine Superintelligence.

OpenAI is disbanding its AGI readiness team — and its Senior Advisor for AGI readiness, Miles Brundage, just resigned after over six years at the organization.

The company defines artificial general intelligence (AGI) as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.” And Brundage defines “ready for AGI” as roughly “readiness to safely, securely, and beneficially develop, deploy, and govern increasingly capable AI systems.”

So is OpenAI prepared for the thing it's explicitly trying to build?

No, according to Brundage.

In an accompanying Substack post, he writes, “In short, neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab [...]

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Outline:

(02:11) So what?

(06:37) There are some years where decades happen

(08:19) Brundage's farewell

(11:15) A call for cooperation with China

(14:07) Appendix:

(14:10) Where did the co-authors go?

(16:08) Full announcement text

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First published:
October 23rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/omzGEWqQJv6uP7D6k/miles-brundage-resigned-from-openai-and-his-agi-readiness

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