Alignment Winter? Researchers Urge Early-Career Safety Researchers to Slow Down and Think More
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-10-13
- An AI safety researcher recalls rushing to "solve alignment within a year" 4 years ago out of short-timeline fears, until mentor Alex Gray — then at OpenAI, who left shortly after summer 2022 partly due to GPT-4 — told him to settle down.
- The author argues we may be in an "alignment winter" partly because too many newcomers feel rushed, hurting research selection.
- Quoted post: early-career empirical safety researchers should slow down and think more; the best empirical researchers at MATS and Redwood spend long hours writing and thinking about their research.
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