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Ilya Sutskever
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Ilya Sutskever

Title: CEO Company: Safe Superintelligence( SSI) Industry: Technology
Ilya is the Co-Founder of SSI, a research lab dedicated solely to solving the technical challenges of safety before capability. Formerly the Chief Scientist at OpenAI, where he led the development of GPT-4, he left to pursue a“ straight shot” at safe superintelligence without commercial distractions. Ilya believes in“ superalignment”: ensuring that AI systems smarter than humans will reliably follow human intent. He is a legendary figure in the field, respected for his intuition about the trajectory of deep learning.
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