OpenAI's automated AI researcher plan draws scrutiny over humans' shrinking role
trevposts · x · 2026-09-22
Discussing OpenAI's latest standards blog, trevnotes notes its AGI plan is to "build an automated AI researcher" and "iterate with it on the alignment problem," with human researchers' role TBD. He observes this recursive self-improvement roadmap is shared by Anthropic, xAI and Google, but worries the envisioned "human in the loop" is even weaker than during the HuggingFace agent-swarm incident, which went undetected for weeks.
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