OpenAI's Boaz Barak urges tolerance for harsh safety critiques amid alignment community feud
AdrienLE · x · 2026-09-08
- OpenAI researcher Joshua Achiam posted a long complaint that the rationalist/EA-flavored alignment community treats OpenAI with extreme hostility, creating a "death spiral" where relentless pressure drives alignment researchers out of the company.
- Boaz Barak quote-RT'd it, saying OpenAI should be OK with strong critiques even when more adversarial than necessary: "We are unleashing a technology that is truly changing the world... with great power comes great responsibility."
- The exchange, amplified by Adrien Lecanu's retweet, exposes the ongoing public rift between the safety community and OpenAI over how its alignment work should be criticized.
More from AGI Musings
- Luiza Jarovsky asks frontier lab staff: is it responsible to continue without solved alignment? — LuizaJarovsky · 2026-09-08
- iamtrask Pushes Back on Blameless AI Incident Sharing: Why Should AI Get an Exception? — iamtrask · 2026-09-08
- Recsys veteran: most ML problems are really recommendation problems — vboykis · 2026-09-08
- Reading Ellul's Technological Society in the LLM Era: When the 'One Best Technique' Gets an AI Twist — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-08
- Pew: 52% of Americans more concerned than excited about AI in daily life — Polymarket · 2026-09-08
- EU classifies ChatGPT as Very Large Online Search Engine under DSA, exposing regulatory gap — OmarUFlorez · 2026-09-08