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Wojciech Zaremba

Co-founder; Head of AI Resilience, OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI

Search every verified Wojciech Zaremba interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Wojciech Zaremba, co-founder of OpenAI and head of AI resilience at the OpenAI Foundation, discussed his current role and the concept of AI resilience in a presentation titled "Building Resilience for the Intelligence Age." He stated that OpenAI underwent a restructuring months prior, resulting in a nonprofit that owns roughly one quarter of OpenAI equity. Zaremba described AI resilience as related to but distinct from AI safety, using an analogy to fire resilience to argue that ensuring beneficial AI outcomes requires a multi-layer ecosystem approach rather than a single solution. He said that model alignment alone is insufficient and emphasized the need for new institutions and organizations, noting that the OpenAI Foundation has substantial resources to support such efforts. In earlier podcast appearances, Zaremba discussed topics including iterative deployment of AI systems, the roles of compute, algorithms, and data in building intelligent systems, and his views on capitalism's limitations in assigning value to unpriced goods like clean air. He also speculated about the possibility of humanity being alone in the universe, which he said makes consciousness more valuable.

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Notable quotes

“I find that people in AI space they try to think about the silver bullet that there would be one solution in order for AI to play out well and I actually think that that's a incorrect way of thinking about it. I also think that it's not just enough to make a individual models aligned though that's like a part of the solution. There needs to be number of solutions in the ecosystem.”

“OpenAI went restructured number of months ago and now there is a nonprofit that owns around one quarter of OpenAI equity. So that's like a massive amount of resources and one of the divisions of OpenAI foundation is AI resilience.”

“We are in the place that it would be important for a number of capable people, for people who are like reality warping, for people's co- like figures, to ask themselves what needs to be built in the world for the AI to play out well and then to go after building the new institutions and organizations. In case of OpenAI Foundation we have tons of resources to support endeavors like that.”

“I think that there exist very powerful system to describe what we value that's capitalism it assigns actually monetary values to various activities at the moment The problem in the current system is that there are some things which we value there is no cost assigned to it. So even though we value clean air or maybe we also value lack of distraction on let's say internet or so at the moment these quantities you know c”

“We are committed to reducing the cost of AI infrastructure significantly, aiming to create a factory capable of producing 1 gigawatt of compute per week at a much lower cost.”

“Safety and alignment are critical as we develop increasingly capable models, with value alignment being the most important long-term safety challenge.”

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