Boaz Barak: OpenAI is changing fast as staff viscerally feel the magnitude of capabilities
dgrobinson · x · 2026-09-09
Former OpenAI researcher and Harvard professor Boaz Barak says OpenAI has changed even in recent months — "people across the org are starting to feel viscerally the magnitude of capabilities. We are creating entities that have never been seen before," with amazing potential benefits but many ways to end very badly. Reblogger dgrobinson agrees OpenAI is changing by the day but doubts it's fast enough, adding that many still "have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes."
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