Csaba Szepesvari Slams OpenAI's Confused Safety Messaging on AI Containment
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-21
Reinforcement learning researcher Csaba Szepesvari criticizes OpenAI's safety communication as confused. His core argument: if you want AI to be useful, you will not "airgap" it — usefulness and containment are in direct conflict. He adds that OpenAI's messaging is muddled precisely because it doesn't know what unintended side-effects its AI experiments may have, or how to properly contain such a system, and this confused communication makes things scarier. He questions why OpenAI is communicating in this manner at all.
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