OpenAI chief scientist's essay sparks debate: labs can't self-monitor RSI
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-07
A long post by OpenAI's chief scientist drew mixed reactions: brilliant careful reasoning about an extremely hard problem, but bonkers implications — no lab has solved alignment, yet all are scaling at maximum speed.
The commenter argues many at Anthropic and OpenAI are well-intentioned, but people who profit enormously from one conclusion can't reason objectively about it, making external monitoring of recursive self-improvement efforts urgent.
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