Former OpenAI researcher Aidan Clark: for the first time I'm asking if AI is moving too fast
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-09-09
Former OpenAI core researcher Aidan Clark says that for the first time he is asking himself whether AI is moving too fast — while admitting he honestly isn't sure.
- He argues the field first needs to answer "what would a successful pace look like?", a question no one has clearly defined yet.
- He hopes a concrete proposal on the right pace emerges in the coming weeks and months.
- Notable as a rare middle-ground take from a heavyweight: neither alarmist nor dismissive, focused on the undefined question of what "the right speed" even means.
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