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  The team at OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, says that they expect Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems with superhuman intelligence to emerge in about 10 years. According to them, this offers opportunities for tremendous growth and problem-solving. But it also poses risks, such as the danger that such AI systems may be difficult to manage and ‘align’ to optimal human interests.
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Given this challenge, OpenAI is calling on AI and Machine Learning (ML) teams to propose and develop ways to align future Artificial Super-Intelligence and enable humans to track and trust advanced AI systems. It is offering grants to support research into ‘superalignment’, and looking to hear from research teams that can work or are working on this project.
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Benefits

OpenAI will be incentivizing research into AI super alignment in the following ways:
  • Offering between $100,000 and $2 million grants to academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers
  • Graduate students researching Artificial Intelligence may be accepted into a 1 year Superalignment Fellowship with a commitment of $150,000: $75,000 in stipends, and $75,000 in computing and research funding
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Eligibility

This opportunity is open to organizations, teams, and individuals whose research works in the following direction:
  • Controlling how strong models generalize from weak supervision
  • Understanding AI model internals
  • Scaling oversight of AI systems engaged in complex tasks
  • Honesty, adversarial robustness, a chain of thought faithfulness, evals and testbeds, etc.
Applications will remain open until February 18, 2024. If you want to apply for this opportunity, you can do so HERE. Featured Image Source: Opportunity Desk
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This article was first published on 30th December 2023

ikenna-nwachukwu

Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.

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