OpenAI Capabilities Researcher Dan Selsam Publishes Personal Statement on AI Risk
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-15
Dan Selsam, an OpenAI capabilities researcher since 2022, has shared a public personal statement on AI risk via an intermediary (he has no Twitter account). His 15+ year AI background spans probabilistic programming at MIT, early Lean theorem prover development at Microsoft Research, pioneering neural reasoning work in his Stanford PhD, and co-pioneering chain-of-thought optimization at OpenAI. Prominent AI figures are amplifying and endorsing the statement.
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