Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, two champions of safe AI

This week we talk about two key figures in the world of AI, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, recent Nobel laureate in physics. Both have set themselves a goal: to warn of the dangers of AI and to try to do something positive so that artificial intelligence is truly used for the good of humanity and not against us.

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Reaches 32 Billion Valuation

Safe Superintelligence, founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI over security concerns, has reached a valuation of $32 billion. The company is dedicated solely to developing “safe superintelligence” without immediate commercial pressures. Sutskever took over as CEO after co-founder Daniel Gross switched to Meta because it gave him a mountain of money, and then AI security immediately took a back seat...The startup represents an alternative approach to AI development, prioritizing security over speed to market, with the goal of avoiding the alignment problems that plague current systems. Such a high valuation for a startup that aims to go “slow” when everyone is running (to where?) is only due to the fact that as CEO is Ilya Sutskever, but why is he such a big name?