Jakub Pachocki publishes An Alien Mind
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Published "An Alien Mind" — OpenAI's chief scientist writes that he expects AI to become meaningfully smarter than humans; that deep learning systems are grown rather than designed, so their full workings cannot be understood; that superhuman capability is visible in penetrating cyber systems; and that machines will play an ever larger role in their own development (recursive self-improvement). Concludes that no lab considers alignment solved well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed
Why it matters
Since these are the frontier-lab chief scientist's own words, it is a primary source for what he said. Written just after the company declared that its GPT-6 Astra model met the Critical cyber threshold, it puts a declaration of capability and an admission that alignment is unsolved in the same week
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