OpenAI chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at top speed

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki set out his warning in an essay titled "An Alien Mind," published on OpenAI's website on 6 September. "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," he wrote, adding that he expects and hopes for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established, and that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.