The grants aim to fund research in several areas including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, honesty, chain-of-thought faithfulness, adversarial robustness, evals and testbeds, among others. OpenAI is particularly interested in bringing new researchers into the field, believing they could make significant contributions to this young and critical area of AI research.
Key takeaways:
- Superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years, posing new technical challenges for aligning AI systems to ensure they are safe.
- OpenAI, in partnership with Eric Schmidt, is launching a $10M grants program to support technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe.
- The grants program is offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers, and a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship for graduate students.
- The research directions they are interested in funding include weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, honesty, chain-of-thought faithfulness, adversarial robustness, evals and testbeds, and more.