At OpenAI, Sutskever was working on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is AI that can perform any intellectual task that a human can3. His focus was on ensuring the safe development of better-than-human AI systems.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. is a startup focusing on the development of safe superintelligence, which refers to AI systems that are smarter than humans. It aims to ensure safety and security in AI development, and its founders include former OpenAI leaders Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy, as well as former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross3.