Noam Brown's Dwarkesh podcast: a capabilities researcher 'freaking everyone out' on safety
Apprehensive_Sand951 · reddit · 2026-09-18
Noam Brown, OpenAI's reasoning research lead, appeared on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast. The Reddit poster's take: if the mission was to send a capabilities researcher to talk about safety and freak everyone out, "mission accomplished."
The comment suggests Brown discussed aggressive frontier capability progress with unsettling safety implications — worth listening to the full episode for his actual arguments.
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