Who will lead Superalignment at OpenAI on July 1?
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No one
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Ilya Sutskever
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Jan Leike
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John Schulman
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I hope this will have a simple resolution.

Here are some criteria for edge cases that could come up:

  • It doesn't matter if this is a temporary or permanent assignment.

  • If there is a transition on July 1, I'll resolve to the leadership at the end of the day.

  • I hope to resolve to a single name, but if there are co-leaders or a similar situation, I may resolve to a %.

  • "No one" is mostly to cover extreme cases, like the entire team is dissolved. I'll also use this if it's truly unknown after some honest investigation. Even if there is no formal leader, I will try to resolve to whoever is leading the team in practical terms, even if that's a relatively low-level staff member who's taken over operations temporarily.

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The Superalignment team does not exist anymore, and not all parts of the former Superalignment team are under John Schulman. (e.g the interpretability team is now under David Farhi).

Some interesting grey area has opened up.

If things stay more or less as they are today, we need to know "does the Superalignment team still exist" along with "who leads it". If I have to make that decision to resolve this market, I'm going to lean heavily on the original "Introducing Superalignment" blog post and compare its main points to the team that exists on July 1.

Today's "Safety and Security Committee" post makes it seem like more changes are coming, but likely not before the close date.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/

https://openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and-security-committee/

We need clarification. “Superalignment“ == “alignment“?

I.e. if Schulman leads “alignment“, but not “superalignment“, how does this resolve?

(I would argue this is not the same. Alignment research is very broad, while superalignment is a concept relating to a specific engineering project.)

DanboughtṀ100John Schulman YES

Axios and Bloomberg are reporting that superalignment is moving under Schulman: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/28/openai-safety-new-model

opened a Ṁ50 No one NO at 10% order

I put in some initial limit orders, but I plan to close all my positions here well before market resolution.