Sam Altman (left), CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company’s co-founder and then-chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. | Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding? Editor’s note, May 17, 2024, 11:20 pm ET: This story has been updated to include a post-publication statement from Op