OpenAI chief scientist: no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep max-speed scaling
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-15
A debate over philosophy's role in alignment widens into a survey of AI safety sentiment:
- The author cites OpenAI's chief scientist: "Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer."
- OpenAI has the strongest incentive to be publicly optimistic, yet has fired multiple safety whistleblowers — and the world's three most cited ML researchers (Hinton, Bengio, Sutskever) are all fairly pessimistic, with academic safety researchers largely agreeing.
- Responding to mockery of Yudkowsky, the author clarifies he meant cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener, not MIRI.
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