OpenAI revamps team puts AI safety expert Madry in charge of new project

The OpenAI team gives Aleksander Madry, who is in charge of AI safety, a new important  AI study project.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that Aleksander Madry, who is in charge of AI safety at ChatGPT, was working on a new research project while the company reorganised its readiness team.

Altman wrote on X that Aleksander is working on a new and v(very) important research project. He also said that OpenAI executives Lilian Weng and Joaquin Quinonero Candela  will be in charge of the preparation team for now.

A spokesperson for OpenAI said in a statement that the preparedness team helps to check how ready the company’s AI models are for general intelligence. They also said that Madry will have a bigger part in the research organisation after the move. asks for comments that Madry did not answer right away. It was written in the post that “Joaquin and Lilian are taking over the preparedness team as part of unifying our safety work.”

The Information was the first to announce Madry’s move. They said that researcher Tejal Patwardhan would be in charge of a lot of the team’s work. These steps are being taken because OpenAI’s chatbots, which can have talks like a person and make videos and pictures based on text commands, are getting stronger, which has raised safety concerns.

The Microsoft-backed company set up a Safety and Security Committee earlier this year. It will be led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman, until the company trains its next AI model.