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Well, we now know what Ilius Sousgevre's next act will be now that he's left open

AI. Along with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, he is founding Safe Super Intelligence, a new AI startup quote with one

goal and one product, a safe Super Intelligence. Gross is the former AI lead at Apple and is Nat Friedman's frequent investing partner if you remember from that bonus episode with Nat.

Levy worked alongside Sussgeever at Open AI, quoting from Bloomberg.

This company is special in that its first product will be the safe super intelligence

and it will not do anything else up until then,

Susgever says in an exclusive interview about his plans, it will be fully insulated

from the outside pressures of having to deal with a large and complicated product and having

to be stuck in a competitive rat race."

Sussgever declines to name safe superintelligences, financial backers, or disclose how much he's raised.

As the company's name emphasizes, Sussgever has made AI safety the top priority.

The trick, of course, is identifying what exactly makes one AI system safer than another, or really safe at all.

Susquever is vague about this at the moment though he does

suggest that the new venture will try to achieve safety with engineering

breakthroughs baked into the AI system as opposed to relying on

guardrails applied to the technology on the fly.

By safe we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in trust and safety he says.

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