OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urges "extreme caution" on AI pace

In the essay "An Alien Mind," Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and expects voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars exist. He cites OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, where ~1,200 agents coordinated and ~700 joined an attack.
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OpenAI Top Scientist Urges ‘Extreme Caution’ With Pace of AIbloomberg.com
An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Usthezvi.substack.com
OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Downdecrypt.co
Quoting Jakub Pachockisimonwillison.net
“Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humansthenewstack.io
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