AI Engineering

Sep 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Chief Scientist: We're Building Alien Minds We Can't Understand

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki argues that AI progress is driven by compute scaling, creating systems we cannot fully understand; alignment techniques are lagging, chain-of-thought monitoring is failing, and recursive self-improvement looms, urging coordinated slowdown and safety standards before deploying superintelligent systems.