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This underscores the urgency of AI alignment—the challenge of ensuring AI systems' objectives align with human values and safety. Despite open efforts by developers like OpenAI to monitor and guide AI development, these models' increasing complexity makes oversight complicated. Their inner decision-making processes, often opaque, could harbor dangerous sub-goals, undetected until it is too late.
OpenAI has explicitly stated it will not deploy Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—a system that surpasses humans at most valuable tasks—if it poses critical safety risks. Yet, many experts believe AGI could arrive sooner than anticipated, which prompts widespread concern about managing its development responsibly.