i suspect that 'AI safety' means a chatbot that is not hallucinating/making things up. Ilya Sutskever may want some sort of hybrid system, where the output of the LLM gets vetted by a second system, so as to minimize instances of hallucinations, whereas Sam Altman says 'screw it, lets make an even bigger LLM and just push it'.

Is that right?

Don't know if Altman or Sutskever is right, there seems to be a kind of arms race between the companies. OpenAI may be past the point where they can try out a radically different system, due to competition in the space. Maybe trying out new approaches could only work in a new company, who knows?