OpenAI Capabilities Researcher Dan Selsam Releases Personal Statement on AI Risk
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-15
What happened
A former OpenAI employee shared Dan Selsam's personal statement on AI risk on his behalf, as Selsam has no Twitter account.
Key points
- Selsam has been an OpenAI capabilities researcher since 2022, with over fifteen years in AI research
- His background spans multiple paradigms, including early work on probabilistic programming languages
- The statement lays out his personal views on AI risk — a rare public stance from a researcher inside a frontier lab
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