We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML researchers and engineers to join us.
TL;DR: OpenAI announces a new team dedicated for researching superintelligence
If they were truly concerned about those impacts they wouldn’t be dedicating teams to making it happen.
Maybe they just want to avoid punishment by an omniscient AI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk