OpenAIboss Sam Altman has updated his company’s mission statement, outlining the steps needed to achieve human-levelartificial intelligence.
The 1,100-worddocument, published on OpenAI’s website on Sunday, details five guiding “principles” to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) “benefits all of humanity”.
They include democratisation of the technology, greater user empowerment, improved safety resilience, better corporate adaptability, and what Altman refers to as “universal prosperity” through the building of huge amounts ofAIinfrastructure.
“Power in the future can either be held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence, or it can be held in a decentralised way by people,” he wrote.
“We believe the latter is much better, and our goal is to put truly general AI in the hands of as many people as possible... Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.”
There are some notable key differences to the language used compared to previous mission statements, which focused on ushering AGI in the safest way possible.
He claimed that holding back models that might pose a threat – like OpenAI did with the restricted roll out of GPT-2 – was a “misplaced worry”.
Instead, Altman said OpenAI would “embrace that uncertainty” by deploying its systems and learning from their interactions with the world.
OpenAI unveiled itsmost powerful AI model to datelast week, describing it as a “new class of intelligence”.
The GPT-5.5 is designed to carry out tasks, like online research and data analysis, without human oversight.
Source: Drudge Report
