Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence (SSI) · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Co-creator of AlexNet and seq2seq, OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist; leads Safe Superintelligence Inc.
News mentioning Ilya Sutskever (7)
- Kevin Roose's 'The AGI Chronicles' excerpt in The Atlantic: the Altman–Amodei feud and a 2017 Brockman/Sutskever plan to auction OpenAI's AGI to countries ★★★
On Sept 30, 2026 The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's book "The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, on sale Oct 6, 2026). The excerpt covers the OpenAI–Anthropic rivalry and the personal feud between…
- "Claude Pop": music videos made by Claude Opus 5.5 for the AI-doom song "I'm Upping My P(doom)" become a genre ★★★
On the day Claude Opus 5.5 launched (2026-09-22), John Heibel (@other__reality) posted a painted music video, made entirely in code by Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, for "Claude-Pop - I'm Upping My P(Doom)". That is a Suno remake (by deckard, 2026-09-09) of a 2024 Udio song full of AI-safety in-jokes…
- 'Pacing the Frontier': 1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development ★★★★
On 2026-07-28, more than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta (1,386 by late September), including Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark and Ilya Sutskever, signed "Pacing the Frontier". The statement asks the US government to support an…
- Jan Leike resigns, saying OpenAI's safety culture 'has taken a backseat to shiny products'; Superalignment team dissolved ★★★★
In mid-May 2024 both leads of OpenAI's Superalignment team left: chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced his departure on May 14 and Jan Leike posted 'I resigned' hours later. On May 17 Leike explained in an X thread that 'safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products' and…
- OpenAI founded as a non-profit AI research lab ★★★★
OpenAI launched as a non-profit research company with a mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, backed by pledges from Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others.
- Sequence-to-sequence learning and neural attention ★★★★
Sutskever, Vinyals and Le's seq2seq (LSTM encoder–decoder) and Bahdanau, Cho and Bengio's attention mechanism, both posted in September 2014, made end-to-end neural machine translation work.
- AlexNet wins ImageNet challenge, igniting the deep learning boom ★★★★★
Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton's GPU-trained convolutional network won ILSVRC-2012 with a top-5 error of 15.3% vs. 26.2% for the runner-up, convincing the field that deep learning works.
Posts (2)
- Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies original ↗ Pacing the Frontier (frontier-lab employees) · other · 2026-07-28
Over 1,100 (now 1,386) OpenAI/Anthropic/GDM/Meta employees, incl. Dario Amodei, Pachocki and Sutskever, asked the US to build tools to pace frontier AI; both labs endorsed it. - Ilya Sutskever original ↗ Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut · x · 2024-05-14
Cited as a source by: 2024-05-17-leike-resigns-superalignment-disbanded
Videos (11)
- 11 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next 80,000 Hours · 2026-10-02
- AGI In Your Eyes (Upping my P(doom) Hard Takeoff Remix) modernatomicplayboy · 2026-09-29
- I'm Upping My P(Doom) - Retro 3D Pixel Art Version Goat Labs · 2026-09-28
- I'm Lowering My P(Doom) (Disco Version) | Barbenheimer, but AI Pratham · 2026-09-28
- Nothing Went Foom! Bright Mirror · 2026-09-26
- P(doom) 풀매수 | 수채화 애니 MV (한글자막) | I'm Upping My P(doom) 크립토메이지 · 2026-09-26
- P(doom) 추매 중 VOL.2 | 실사판 MV (한글자막) | Still Upping My P(doom) 크립토메이지 · 2026-09-26
- If Christopher Nolan Directed "I'm Upping My P(Doom)" Pratham · 2026-09-26
- I'm Upping My P(Doom) | Voxel J-Rock Cover 〔MV by Claude Opus 5.5〕 노는사람 · 2026-09-24
- 5 CODE-ONLY MOVIES Made By NEW AI Opus 5.5 XplatformNEWS · 2026-09-23
- Singularity Sing Along | Upping my p(Doom) Doom Probability · 2026-09-13
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