Ex-OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage: not taking intelligence explosion seriously was my biggest intellectual mistake
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-29
Miles Brundage says his biggest intellectual mistake of recent years was not spending enough time on intelligence explosion scenarios, which made him too optimistic about alignment and too dismissive of the value of slowdown. He still cautions that misuse matters, disagrees with the "deploy everything to avoid asymmetry" view, and thinks the "self-improvement" framing can mislead.
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