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Jakub Pachocki said no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to continue scaling at maximum speed

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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a degree that justifies continuing to scale at maximum speed, and said he expects voluntary slowdowns to become common across the industry until shared safety standards are established.

"This is a time that calls for extreme caution," Pachocki wrote in an essay published Saturday on OpenAI's website. "I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence."