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March 22, 2023

'The risk surface is massive': Inside OpenAI's team making GPT-4 safer

Researcher tasked with stress testing GPT-4's ability to produce harmful content says that the possible risks from generative AI are essentially unimaginable


Tim Smith

3 min read

While OpenAI is working hard to curtail harmful outputs on its large language model (LLM) GPT-4, the potential for safety risks from these models is “massive” — simply because there are so many ways they can be put to work. 

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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