OpenAI chief scientist Pachocki: alignment unsolved, favors voluntary slowdown and shared standards
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-14
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki delivers a warning from inside the lab amid the AI slowdown debate:
- No lab has yet solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer
- He favors voluntary slowdowns and shared safety standards
A rare direct statement from a frontier lab's science lead, contrasting with Dario's regulatory-flavored plan and Hassabis's standards-body route.
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