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Jakub Pachocki

Chief Scientist at OpenAI; leads OpenAI's research strategy and major model development efforts

We do not have a satisfactory theory of generalization, and it seems unlikely that we can develop one soon, at least without the help of more powerful AI. Therefore, at present, our ability to empirically validate our alignment techniques is in practice arguably even more important than the alignment techniques themselves.

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Jakub Pachocki, “An Alien Mind,” OpenAI, September 6, 2026.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are ...

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

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