Miles Brundage, OpenAI’s senior adviser for the readiness of AGI (aka human-level artificial intelligence), delivered a stark warning as he announced his departure on Wednesday: no one is prepared for artificial general intelligence, including OpenAI itself.

OpenAI is disbanding its "AGI Readiness" safety team, which advised the company on its capacity to handle the outcomes of increasingly powerful AI.

Miles Brundage, head advisor of the OpenAI AGI Readiness team resigned. The AGI Readiness team was also disbanded.

Unprepared The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned — and is warning that nobody is ready for what's coming next.

Previously a subteam under AGI Readiness headed by Pamela Mishkin, OpenAI's Economic Research team will now answer Ronnie Chatterji, the new chief economist. The remaining AGI Readiness team members would be moved to other departments of the company, Brundage added.

Brundage's exit comes on the heels of several high-profile departures from OpenAI's safety teams, including Jan Leike and co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Leike left after raising concerns that "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.

OpenAI expert's exit raises urgent questions on AGI readiness and global preparedness for transformative AI impacts. To ensure AGI safety.

Now the person tasked with ensuring that ChatGPT developer OpenAI is ready for its arrival has said that both the world and the company itself is “not ready”. Miles Brundage had previously served as OpenAI’s “senior adviser for the readiness of AGI”,