OpenAI has added a Carnegie Mellon professor to its board of directors

OpenAI has announced the appointment of Zico Kolter to its board of directors. Kolter is a professor and chair of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where his research is focused primarily on AI security. This makes him an “invaluable technical director for [OpenAI’s] governance,” OpenAI writes in a post on its official blog.

AI safety has been a big issue at the company. Kolter's appointment comes months after several prominent OpenAI executives and security staff, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever, left the company. Some of those departures came from Sutzkever's former Superalignment team, which was working on ways to control "super-intelligent" artificial intelligence systems but was denied access to computing resources that it had been promised, the people said. Corter will also join Openai Board Security and Security Committe with Brett Taylor, Adam Dangelo, Paul Nakathon, Nicole Seligman, CEO Sam Altman, and open -item. The committee is responsible for creating recommendations for the security and security decisions of all Openai projects, but as mentioned in the May article, it is mainly questioned among experts on its effectiveness. I am. "Zico adds a deep technical understanding and perspective on AI safety and reliability that will help ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity," Taylor, chairman of the OpenAI board of directors, said in a statement.

C3.ai's former chief data scientist, Coulter, earned his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2010 and then spent time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012. His research includes demonstrating the ability to evade existing artificial intelligence defenses using automated optimization techniques. Colter is no stranger to industrial collaboration, currently serving as "chief expert" at Bosch and chief technical adviser to artificial intelligence startup Grey Swan.