OpenAI has announced that it will be opening its first international office in London, UK. The office will focus on research and engineering, with a particular emphasis on creating safe artificial general intelligence (AGI), which OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman described as "generally smarter than humans". The company has not yet revealed when the office will open or how many people it will employ, but it has advertised four positions so far.
Chloe Smith, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, welcomed OpenAI's announcement calling it a "vote of confidence for Britain as an AI powerhouse.”
In related news, The Washington Post reports that a San Francisco-based law firm is filing a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that ChatGPT has violated the copyrights and privacy of "countless people" when it scraped user data to train its algorithms from social media comments and blog posts.
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