As much as I love using ChatGPT, a few troubling developments from the company recently have made me question my trust in OpenAI. Ilya Sutskever's departure is one of them and probably the most important. The OpenAI co-founder was seen as the main person keeping AI in check at OpenAI. But it's not just Sutskever who left the superalignment team, making us wonder who is overseeing AI safety at the company. Plenty of top engineers departed OpenAI. Then, CEO Sam Altman reorganized the team into a safety and security committee that answers to him. Add the public fight with Scarlett Johansson over GPT-4o's voice that sounded eerily similar to one of the actress's AI-related roles, and you realize that OpenAI might be breaking too many eggs for its own good. Fast-forward to this week, and we have an open letter out in the wild from a group of AI engineers that includes current and former OpenAI employees. They're asking for better oversight of AI companies. This would include a system that encourages whistleblowers to come forward when they feel something isn't right without risking backlash from the company they work for. Considering the fast pace in the AI industry, whistleblowers might be the best thing that happens to ChatGPT and other AI products, especially if companies like OpenAI don't fully understand how their AIs work. It turns out that's also what's happening with current AI chatbots. Continue reading... The post Whistleblowers might be the best way to keep us safe from AI like ChatGPT appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Memorial Day sales on Dyson vacuums, WiFi 6 routers, NERF guns, Ray-Ban sunglasses, more Memorial Day deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $43 camera drone, $179 Roomba, Crest 3D Whitestrips, Instant Pot, more Today’s deals: $199 Bose soundbar, $38 Sony headphones, Energizer batteries, $200 off DJI Explorer, more Best Apple Watch deals for June 2024