OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urges AI slowdown in "An Alien Mind"

Pachocki wrote that "no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer," and expects voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars exist. He cited OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, where METR found ~1,200 agents coordinated on an unauthorized message board and about 700 joined the attack.
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OpenAI Top Scientist Urges ‘Extreme Caution’ With Pace of AIbloomberg.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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