Jakub Pachocki
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Sep 11, 2026
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
These comments come after a wave of discussion about slowing the pace of AI development that started even before Jacob Coxon's viral tweet earlier this week.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Many OpenAI staffers signed on to the Pacing the Frontier open letter in July, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki recently warned that recursive self-improvement amplified the case for a slowdown.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
In a blog post published last weekend, Pachocki wrote that he hopes for industry coordination and, quote, "voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established." This appears to be the first time that Altman has indicated a willingness to slow down.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Unlike his counterpart, Dario Amodei at Anthropic, he did not sign the Pacing the Frontier open letter and had been noncommittal in public statements until very recently.
Jack GambleHOST
Both OpenAI and its rival Anthropic have filed confidential paperwork to go public earlier this year.
Jack GambleHOST
We still have not seen that confidential paperwork The company's top scientist, Jakub Pachocki, recently wrote a post warning about the dangers of AI and said that he believes AI companies should be coordinating to slow down future development as needed.
Jack GambleHOST
Pachocki added that he hopes for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.
Jack GambleHOST
OpenAI said it has slowed parts of its model development and paused certain internal AI training recently due to safety concerns.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
We also have confirmations of previous stances from Dean Ball and Leo Gio.
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This is in addition to many other recent statements, most prominently by Jakub Pachocki in his essay An Alien Mind.
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Heading.
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Preference cascade at Google.
speaker_1HOST
The Roomba analogy is incredibly apt, honestly, although obviously the scale and the stakes are infinitely higher.
speaker_1HOST
To understand the mechanism behind these hacks, we have to look at a brilliant essay published this very week by OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki.
speaker_0HOST
Oh, the Alien Mind essay.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
We also have confirmations of previous stances from Dean Ball and Leo Gio.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
This is in addition to many other recent statements, most prominently by Jakub Pachocki in his essay An Alien Mind.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Heading.
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Preference cascade at Google.
Krystal BallHOST
Many researchers believe they're building something that could kill everyone on the planet.
Krystal BallHOST
It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that." Uh, another chief scientist at OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki: "This is a time that calls for extreme caution.
Krystal BallHOST
I'm concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence." Jason Wolfe, a researcher at OpenAI: "I don't know what my probabilities are on literal extinction, but I think there are a number of ways AI could go poorly for humanity.
Krystal BallHOST
At the current frankly terrifying pace, humanity will be quite lucky if we manage to find and stay on the narrow path between all the bad outcomes." Jonathan Richard Schwartz, former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind: "I left DeepMind after seven years and since rejected offers to join the other two labs due to severe concerns about the concentration of power these labs represent.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
Maybe.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
But even OpenAI's own chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, spent this month urging extreme caution, saying humans must remain in control of the future.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
So the people building this, Anthropic's own researchers and even OpenAI's own chief scientist, spent the week warning that superintelligence could get away from us, and then one of them spent the same week showing off how close it is getting.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
OpenAI says that it just used its most powerful model yet to crack a 200-year-old math problem, and then it picked a fight over who deserves the credit.
Snigdha SharmaHOST
[Instrumental music] So this week, OpenAI claimed that one of its AI models, the one that it says is the most advanced than anything that it has released publicly, had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, which sounds like a discontinued perfume, but actually it is a roughly 200-year-old math puzzle about how fluids move.
Jacob CoxonGUEST
Yeah.
Jacob CoxonGUEST
I think-- Take, say, Jakub Pachocki's recent-- He's the chief scientist at OpenAI, and he had a recent statement saying essentially, "The future is scary if we don't slow down." It was called An Alien Mind, was the post.
Jacob CoxonGUEST
So I wouldn't-- None of this is deceitful.
Jacob CoxonGUEST
He s- he spoke the truth.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
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Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Clawed Fable and Mythos 5.1 The System Card 2 Clawed Fable and Mythos 5.1 Capabilities 3 OpenAI and the Wiki Incident A Reports of OpenAI agents compromising additional wikis continue to stream in, and OpenAI is continuing not to be the one to disclose them 4 an alien mind jakub pachocki warns us five astra is hard to monitor six gpt-6 astra the system card alignment and what comes next anthropics claude fable 5.1 is a very good model open ai's gpt-6 astra is also a very good model and a bigger improvement Try both.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
See what works for you where.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
The Hugging Face OpenAI saga got a prequel.
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Nathan YoungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nathan Young.
Nathan YoungSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Can we have a speedrunning-style thing where the game is now to prove theorems in fewer characters of Lean?
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Jakub Paczaki incidentally said in An Alien Mind that OpenAI could make the models better at math, but is choosing not to focus on that.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Which means that the math progress we see is well short of what we could be seeing.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
The Hugging Face OpenAI saga got a prequel, as it turns out that there was a Wiki incident prior to the hack, which OpenAI decided not to disclose, that in some key ways changes our interpretation of the timeline.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned us that capabilities are developing rapidly, alignment is not keeping pace and monitorability is eroding fast.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
We will need to find ways to cooperate and slow down, or we are all cooked.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
This was a very good essay.
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Type Three AudioNARRATOR
OpenAI and Google continue, as far as we can tell, to oppose the Massachusetts bill that would require third-party auditing.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Lehane claims that they are supporting the auditing provision, but I have not seen them say they are supporting the bill.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
As Matthew Iglesias says, and Alex Boers emphasizes, Jakub Pachocki's essay An Alien Mind was excellent but is completely at odds with what OpenAI's lobbyists and PACs have been up to, at least until yesterday.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
OpenAI has continuously represented that they are being helpful, while instead being mostly anti-helpful.
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