OpenAI’s chief scientist just issued a warning...

OpenAI’s chief scientist says AI is approaching recursive self-improvement—and our ability to keep it under control isn’t keeping pace. Jakub Pachocki’s new essay, “An Alien Mind,” lays out why this moment matters. We look at OpenAI’s internal research data, the limits of AI alignment, and what it would take to keep humans in charge. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRothMoney ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: [email protected] ______________________________________________ SOURCES: Jakub Pachocki — An Alien Mind: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ OpenAI — Research Acceleration: The View Inside OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai/ Anthropic — A Global Workspace in Language Models: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace OpenAI — The Hugging Face Incident and the Road Ahead: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Anthropic — The Persona Selection Model: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/psm/ OpenAI — Detecting Misbehavior in Frontier Reasoning Models: https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring/ OpenAI — How Confessions Can Keep Language Models Honest: https://openai.com/index/how-confessions-can-keep-language-models-honest/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 An Alien Mind 02:25 Research Acceleration 04:35 Machine Intelligence 09:55 AI Alignment 20:55 AI Monitoring 24:25 Scalable Defense 25:40 Pacing RSI 29:45 Safety Debate #openai #agi #aisafety