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Jakub Pachocki
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Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and academia warn of an AI "intelligence explosion"
Its 22 authors, including three Turing Award winners, urge governments to track how far AI is building AI and to consider a 'speed limit' on capability growth.
Ideas & essays · Safety & alignment · Government & policy
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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