The “good guy” from OpenAI, the Ash Ketchum to Sam Altman’s Gary Oak, left OpenAI (a while back) to create a new lab/company called Safe Superintelligence. Here is a recent WSJ article about them: https://archive.is/mooDM

This is from their mission statement:

Superintelligence is within reach.

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time.

We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

Some factoids about them:

• They have raised $2 billion.
• Have about 20 employees.

• Candidates who secure an in-person interview are instructed to leave their phone in a Faraday cage, a container that blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals, before entering SSI’s offices, one of the knowledgeable people said.

• SSI operates as secretly as it can out of offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv.

• [Employees] are discouraged from mentioning SSI on their LinkedIn profiles

• Have not released anything. No research, no product, no nothing.

• Sutskever has told associates he isn’t developing advanced AI using the same methods he and colleagues used at OpenAI. He has said he has instead identified a “different mountain to climb” that is showing early signs of promise, according to people close to the company. [No, you cannot see it.]

Ponzi scheme or Mossad front?