The former chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI has announced the launch of his own artificial intelligence (AI) company, which he said would focus on safety. Ilya Sutskever said he was launching Safe Superintelligence and that building safe AI was “our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap”. In a launch statement on the new company’s website, the firm said it would approach “safety and capabilities in tandem” as “technical problems to be solved” and to “advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead”. Some critics have raised concern…