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.
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