OpenAI creates a new team to tackle "superintelligent" AI systems

OpenAI says it plans to create a team to help manage risks that could come from a super-intelligent AI system that should arrive in the decade .

The company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT announces that it will form a team to master and manage the risks of super-intelligent AI systems.

In a July 5 announcement on its blog, OpenAI said the new team would be created to "direct and control AI systems much smarter than we do".

The non-profit organization said it believes superintelligence will be "the most impactful technology mankind has ever invented" and will help solve many problems, although there are risks.

"The vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous and could lead to humanity's disempowerment or even human extinction."

The company said it believes superintelligence could arrive this decade.

He said he would dedicate 20% of the already secure computing power to the effort and aims to create a "human-level" automated alignment seeker. The automated seeker would, in theory, help the team manage superintelligence security and align it with "human intent".

He named his chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and his research lab's alignment manager, Jan Leike, as co-leads of the effort. She made an open call for machine learning researchers and engineers to join the team.

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This OpenAI announcement comes as governments around the world consider measures to control the development, deployment and use of AI systems.

Regulators in the European Union have made the most progress in AI regulation. On June 14, the European Parliament