OpenAI has formed a board committee to evaluate the safety and security of its AI models.
The change in management comes weeks after its top executive resigned and effectively disbanded the company’s internal team. The move also follows harsh criticism of OpenAI’s management by two former board members, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, in The Economist on Sunday.
The new committee will work for 90 days to evaluate security measures in OpenAI technology before issuing a report. “Following the full board’s review, OpenAI will publicly share an update on the accepted recommendations in a manner consistent with safety and security,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. OpenAI also said it recently started training its latest AI model.
The private firm’s recent rapid advances in artificial intelligence have raised concerns about how it manages the technology’s potential dangers. Those concerns intensified last fall when CEO Sam Altman was briefly ousted after a disagreement with co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever over how quickly to develop AI products and steps to limit damages. Those concerns resurfaced this month after Sutskever and a key aide, Jan Leike, left the company.