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OpenAI's chief scientist wants to slow down | E30

aired Sep 10, 2026 · 80.0m
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Summary

OpenAI's chief scientist, Jacob Pachocki, published a personal essay on Sunday called An Alien Mind. His framing is that this is a moment for extreme caution and that he does not believe anyone is prepared for what a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence is actually going to do.

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Key takeaways
  1. 01This is just the greatest marketing move you can make as a company
  2. 02Kind of terrifying that somebody who's building this for such a long time, they feel like, hey, we can't really control this thing
  3. 03This week in AI, and my lord, after a holiday weekend, the amount of AI news that builds up over three days is extraordinary
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