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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI labs may need to slow development as automated research advances and monitoring becomes less reliable.

Sep 9, 2026

AI is getting better at building AI, and OpenAI’s chief scientist now thinks the industry may need to ease off the gas.

Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, said the company and its rivals may need to slow AI development when they can no longer confidently demonstrate that advanced systems are safe.

“This is a time that calls for extreme caution,” Pachocki wrote in his Sept. 6 essay, “An Alien Mind.” “I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.”

Pachocki said OpenAI will continue developing alignment and monitoring techniques and...

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