OpenAI's AGI plan: build an automated AI researcher, then iterate on alignment with it
trevposts · x · 2026-09-22
Per OpenAI's own post on standards, its plan for AGI is to "build an automated AI researcher" and "iterate with it on the alignment problem," with the human researcher's role TBD. Developer Trevor notes this has been OpenAI's plan for years — and, as far as he knows, also Anthropic's, xAI's and Google's. Effectively: recursive self-improvement, ask the AIs to make it safe, figure out where humans fit. He calls on labs to publish a better, more detailed plan.
Related event: OpenAI Plans Automated AI Researcher to Solve Alignment, Human Role TBD(2 posts)→
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