OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki: no lab can responsibly keep scaling at max speed
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-07
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki made a striking statement on the state of AI:
- Calls for voluntary slowdowns until shared safety bars exist, saying OpenAI may unilaterally withhold further scaling when needed.
- He believes no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to responsibly keep scaling at maximum speed.
- Capability claims: machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves will arrive in our lifetime, and models are becoming superhuman at breaking in and out of computer systems.
- He warned no one is prepared for the consequences of continued rapid rises in machine intelligence.
The remarks came quoting @merettm's essay "An Alien Mind" on keeping the future in humanity's hands.
Related event: OpenAI Chief Scientist's "An Alien Mind" Essay Urges Global Slowdown of AI(51 posts)→
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