OpenAI's Mark Chen on hack fallout: 'We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot'
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-04
OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen pushed back on criticism in a new interview following the recent hack fallout: "I do kind of reject the premise that OpenAI is a company with visible impacts in the world and therefore OpenAI is not training safe and aligned models." He said the firm isn't going to "shoot itself in the foot," and discussed what OpenAI is doing to keep models safe, how a training slowdown would work, and why he believes the world is better off with OpenAI in it.
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