# Ilya Sutskever

Record: actor-sutskever · Type: actor · Edition: 0.19.0 · Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15

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Dataset pointer: `/map/entities/32`. Reviewed: 2026-09-15.

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## Position context

Status: placed. Kind: person. Evidence clarity: medium. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.

Sources used: First-hand material.

Editorial coordinates: x=15, y=72; x range [-35, 65]; y range [45, 95]. These are layout units, not probabilities.

## /scope

Personal research ambitions and proposed limits on the most powerful superintelligence.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Annotation: editorial.

[sutskever-nvidia-2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/27/3333561/0/en/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership.html) · [sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2) · [sutskever-superalignment-2023](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/)

## /caveat

The proposed power cap has no specified method. Safety is a research aim, not an established property of future systems.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Annotation: editorial.

[sutskever-nvidia-2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/27/3333561/0/en/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership.html) · [sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2) · [sutskever-superalignment-2023](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/)

## /evidence/0/note

Says his research is ready to be scaled with a larger computer.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-18c2cdf68474736d44667912. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: pace · Evidence role: support.

Find the passage: Sutskever statement in the partnership announcement

[sutskever-nvidia-2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/27/3333561/0/en/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership.html)

## /evidence/1/note

Supports a cap on the most powerful superintelligence, while leaving the method open.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-11e0c602a7d707299caa1639. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: pace · Evidence role: counterpoint.

Find the passage: 01:02:37 to 01:04:10

[sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2)

## /evidence/2/note

His coauthored article warns of human disempowerment or extinction from superintelligence.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-f210de00394999777dc4cbb4. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: concern · Evidence role: support.

Find the passage: Opening and alignment problem

[sutskever-superalignment-2023](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/)

## /evidence/3/note

Still treats extreme system power and control as central safety concerns.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-ae1d10e322c65d0bf447ffc0. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: concern · Evidence role: support.

Find the passage: 00:56:10 to 01:04:10

[sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2)

## /profile/summary

Pursues more capable systems while supporting limits on extreme power; control remains a research problem.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-d3d975f0c6400f4267a85c3a. Annotation: synthesis.

[sutskever-nvidia-2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/27/3333561/0/en/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership.html) · [sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2) · [sutskever-superalignment-2023](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/)

## /profile/sections/0/text

In his November 2025 interview, he gives more weight to incremental release. That concerns deployment, not a general halt to capability research.

Claim: claim-actor-sutskever-2e98a46c7dbffa8fde8d0d9d. Annotation: synthesis.

[sutskever-dwarkesh-2025](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2)

## Source provenance

### sutskever-nvidia-2026

[Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/27/3333561/0/en/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce-long-term-strategic-partnership.html)

NVIDIA / GlobeNewswire · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2026-07-27 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read the issuer announcement linked from SSI, including Sutskever’s attributed research-scaling statement. Primary company announcement, not independent reporting or a capability test. SSI’s update is dated July 26; this release is dated July 27.

No archive check recorded.

### sutskever-dwarkesh-2025

[Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2)

Dwarkesh Podcast / Dwarkesh Patel · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2025-11-25 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read the host transcript, especially 00:43:04 to 00:46:47 and 00:56:10 to 01:04:10. The host describes editorially reworked transcripts. The proposed power cap lacks an implementation method; gradual release concerns deployment.

No archive check recorded.

### sutskever-superalignment-2023

[Introducing Superalignment](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/)

OpenAI / Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2023-07-05 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read the coauthored introduction, research approach and footnotes. Used for historically expressed extinction concern and the distinction between a research aim and a solved control problem. The announced timetable is not treated as a result.

No archive check recorded.