<p>Three years ago, OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said he thinks AI may already be "slightly conscious" — and now, he seems to be selling a different, and very expensive, snake oil. One of the most dramatic figures at a company that was also founded by perennial beef-starter Elon Musk, Sutskever left OpenAI last summer after leading a coup to oust CEO Sam Altman. Just a month after his exit, the AI scientist announced that he was launching a new company called Safe Superintelligence, a seeming callback to his obsession with building human-level AI, otherwise known as […]</p>