OpenAIAnalysisPolicySeptember 6, 2026

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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