Jakub Pachocki on AI alignment is solvable

Jakub Pachocki

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

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 established.

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Jakub Pachocki, “An Alien Mind,” OpenAI, September 6, 2026. Pachocki, OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, writes that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently for continued maximum-speed scaling and calls for voluntary slowdowns until shared safety bars exist.

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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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Jakub Pachocki votes For

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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