OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam publishes personal statement on AI risk
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-15
Dan Selsam, an OpenAI capabilities researcher since 2022 with a background spanning probabilistic programming at MIT, the Lean theorem prover at MSR, and neural reasoning research at Stanford, has published a personal statement on AI risk, shared by former colleague Daniel Kokotajlo. Commenters call it one of the most readable AI-risk essays around.
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