Ilya Sutskever on AI
11 quotes from Ilya Sutskever on the wall, 2017 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Business Insider, dwarkesh.com, garymarcus.substack.com. Topics: hype, science, safety. Open on the wall.
- 2025
These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people
Ilya Sutskever, in an interview discussed on Gary Marcus's Substack, November 2025, on the limits of scaling large language models.
AI is going to be both extremely unpredictable and unimaginable
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, speaking in a video interview with The Open University of Israel, June 2025.
Interview with Ilya Sutskever at the Open University of Israel
- 2024
Name of Ilya Sutskever's company, founded June 2024.
- 2023
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Ilya Sutskever, in a post on X on November 20, 2023, after voting to fire Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO.
Sam Altman says he harbors 'zero ill will' towards former OpenAI board member Ilya Sutskever
Oh my god, this computer seems to understand
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist, describing the reaction of first-time ChatGPT users, in MIT Technology Review, October 2023.
We didn't think ChatGPT was very good when we released it, OpenAI's chief scientist says
Many people will choose to become part AI
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, speaking to MIT Technology Review in October 2023 about how humans might keep up with superintelligent AI.
It just does not make sense to open-source
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, told The Verge in 2023 that open-sourcing advanced AI models is a bad idea once AGI becomes possible.
Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model - vox.com
Predicting the next token well means that you understand the underlying reality
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI chief scientist, in a March 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast interview, explaining what next-token prediction implies about a model's understanding of the world.
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
I challenge the claim that next-token prediction cannot surpass human performance
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI chief scientist, in a March 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast interview, discussing whether next-token prediction can exceed human-level intelligence.
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
- 2022
Today's large neural networks may be slightly conscious
Ilya Sutskever on X, February 2022.
- 2017
Sutskever to Musk and Altman, 20 Sep 2017: "The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship."