OpenAI Chief Scientist Calls for Third-Party AI Audits as Its Lobbyists Fight Them
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-08
NY Assemblymember Alex Bores highlights OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's new essay "An Alien Mind," which lays out concerns about AI's trajectory and calls for concrete action: bars for continued development enforced by third-party auditors, government agencies, or international bodies. Bores points out the tension: OpenAI's Global Affairs office is actively lobbying against most enforcement, including working to kill or weaken third-party audit bills in Massachusetts and DC right now. He stops short of asserting bad faith but warns this could become a textbook case of "do as I say, not as I do."
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