OpenAI Safety Researcher: No Fundamental Alignment Progress Since RLHF Nine Years Ago
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-13
An OpenAI safety researcher writes that "racing into recursive self-improvement is a folly unprecedented in world history" and that there have been no fundamental alignment advancements since RLHF nine years ago. A parallel post confirms via roon that the statement comes from chief scientist Jakub Pachocki.
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