Ilya Sutskever's Bold Move: Shaping the Future of AI Safety

At NeurIPS 2024, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever predicted superintelligent AI will surpass current systems in unpredictability and self-awareness, possibly seeking rights alongside humans. Shortly after, Sutskever launched Safe Superintelligence Inc., securing a whopping $1 billion in funding from top VCs and valuing the startup at $5 billion. With teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, SSI aims to pioneer safe AI beyond traditional pre-training—because apparently, peak data is just too mainstream.