OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki: no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-14
Six days before Dario Amodei's essay set off this week's debate, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that no lab has solved alignment well enough to justify scaling at full speed — an OpenAI insider saying it before Anthropic's CEO did. The author's broader thread adds: a researcher quit saying lab-internal fear is real, Anthropic's alignment lead didn't deny it and added to it, a DeepMind researcher left over the same worry, and another over power consolidating in a handful of labs — all against the backdrop of Anthropic's reported $2T IPO weeks away.
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