OpenAI launches Superalignment team

Superalignment team launched — 20% of secured compute allocated over 4 years

Why it matters

Elevated oversight of superhuman AI to an explicit research program

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/

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