OpenAI researcher Dan Selsam publishes personal statement on AI risk, fueling doomer debate
sebkrier · x · 2026-09-15
OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam (since 2022) shared a public personal statement on AI risk via a third party, citing 15+ years across probabilistic programming at MIT, early Lean theorem prover development at MSR, neural reasoning work at Stanford, and chain-of-thought optimization at OpenAI.
Timothy Lee pushed back on doomer reasoning: solving Navier-Stokes-level problems and managing massive engineering projects are radically different, and conflating them skips 100 intermediate steps.
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