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Jakub Pachocki
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OpenAI's chief scientist warns no lab has solved AI alignment
In an essay titled 'An Alien Mind', Jakub Pachocki said current scaling could sustain into recursive self-improvement and that he hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace until shared safety bars exist.
Safety & alignment · Ideas & essays
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's flagship is its first model rated 'Critical' for cyber capability, and its launch is shadowed by disclosures that a 'recurrent depth' technique makes Astra's reasoning harder to monitor.
Models & capabilities · Safety & alignment · Security & misuse
'Pacing the Frontier' letter goes live with 1,000+ frontier-lab employee signatures
The letter did not call for a pause, but asked government to build the option to slow frontier development; signatures were restricted to verified current employees.
Safety & alignment · Ideas & essays
OpenAI publishes plan for ensuring AGI benefits everyone
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki set three goals for what they called OpenAI's third phase, including a personal AGI for every person and an automated AI researcher by March 2028.
Ideas & essays
OpenAI releases o1, trading inference time for reasoning
A model trained to think before answering opened a second scaling axis: spend more compute at inference and accuracy rises.
Models & capabilities · Benchmarks & progress
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