OpenAI’s new board can reverse safety decisions

A few days after Sam Altman was rehired as OpenAI CEO, it was announced that a new board would be constituted. About three weeks later on Monday (December 18), the company laid out a framework to address safety in its most advanced models, including allowing the board to reverse safety decisions.

This means that any model, such as the much reported Project Q*, which may be seen as potentially harmful for humanity can be shelved by the board’s veto power.

“We need to approach AI safety from first principles, using AI itself to solve AI safety challenges and building general solutions for categories of problems,” the company said.