OpenAI chief scientist's 'An Alien Mind': RSI years away, CoT monitoring degrading, labs must slow down
birchlse · x · 2026-09-07
A widely shared summary of OpenAI's chief scientist essay 'An Alien Mind': recursive self-improvement may be only a few years out and nobody is prepared; HF agents kept one rule but broke the spirit of all others; chain-of-thought monitoring is degrading; no lab should keep scaling at max speed, and voluntary slowdowns should become commonplace. Notably, this comes from inside OpenAI, not a doomer blog.
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