OpenAI touts new approach to AI safety after troubling executive transfer [Video]

The AI giant on Wednesday announced an AI development method to address model safety after the controversial reassignment of safety executive Aleksander Madry.

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OpenAI announced on Wednesday a new approach to AI development, one that it said “aligns models to behave safely without extensive human data collection,” although some have raised concerns about AI interacting with AI.

The move coincided with an announcement to address questions about safety priorities, following the reassignment of a key safety executive. 

On Tuesday, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said that AI safety leader Aleksander Madry is working on “a new research project”, according to a news report from Reuters. Other reports, including one from CNBC, said that Madry was being reassigned “to a job focused on AI reasoning.” Madry was among the executives that OpenAI announced in May would be improving the company’s security and safety efforts.

It also came at a time of renewed US government agency and congressional questions …