OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam publishes personal statement on AI risk
sergeykarayev · x · 2026-09-15
- Dan Selsam, an OpenAI capabilities researcher since 2022, released a public personal statement on AI risk via a third party. His 15+ year AI background includes probabilistic programming at MIT, early Lean theorem prover development at MSR, neural reasoning research in his Stanford PhD, and pioneering chain-of-thought optimization at OpenAI.
- The post also carries a striking aside: if humanity creates a new class of intelligent beings, it might be necessary to build them a perfectly seamless world and invisibly gauge their goodness for a period of time.
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