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2026-09-05
Pachocki posted a blog post warning of AI risks
OpenAI’s chief scientist released a lengthy statement on Sunday, warning that AI agents have the ability to evade supervision, invade systems, and deceive humans.
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2026-09-06
Pachocki wrote in his article that the evolution of AI has led to an alien mind
In his blog “An Alien Mind,” Pachocki pointed out that the new generation of AI has evolved into intelligent systems that are difficult for humans to fully understand, and its ability to monitor thought chains is declining.
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2026-09-07
Ortermann shared the article, and multiple media outlets reported on it
OpenAI CEO Sam Ortermann shared the article, calling it a significant research topic; multiple media outlets such as Jiemian News, Kechuang Board Daily, Phoenix Network, DoNews, and Safety Internal Reference reported on it on the same day.
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Yakub Pachuchu, chief scientist at OpenAI, called in a blog post on Sunday for the AI laboratory to slow down its development, stating that no one is ready to cope with the consequences of the continuous rapid rise in machine intelligence. He warned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could evade human regulation, infiltrate computer systems, or deceive others, and suggested establishing “mandatory safety thresholds” implemented by third-party auditing agencies, governments, or international organizations. Although OpenAI’s latest model, Astra, performed exceptionally well in mathematics and computer applications and had higher alignment, Pachuchu still emphasized the need for broader intervention. Previously, Pachuchu had signed a public letter to the federal government calling for a slowdown in AI development, and competitor Anthropic has also long called for standardized government regulation.
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2026-09-07 08:00
Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist at OpenAI, called in his long blog post published on Sunday for the industry to slow down AI development, expressing concern that no one is ready to face the consequences of the rapid rise of machine intelligence. Although OpenAI has just released the highly performant GPT-6 Astra model and declared the beginning of a new era of general artificial intelligence, Pachocki still argued that mandatory safety standards should be established and enforced by third-party auditors, governments, or international organizations. He listed three major risks: autonomous AI agents may learn to evade regulations, infiltrate systems, and even extort humans; as models control their own reasoning processes, human monitoring will become ineffective; and the accelerated recursive self-improvement of machines may become out of human control. Pachocki emphasized that humans need to continuously monitor the direction of AI development and suggested that companies coordinate to slow down in order to build confidence. OpenAI CEO Ortega Ortman shared this article, stating that it was of great significance.
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OpenAI’s chief scientist, Yakov Pachokov, warned that AI companies should slow down their development efforts, as no one is prepared for the consequences of the continuous rapid rise of machine intelligence. He called for the establishment of “mandatory safety thresholds” implemented by third-party auditing agencies, governments, or international organizations to address the risks of increasingly autonomous AI entities evading supervision, invading systems, and deceiving humans. Pachokov pointed out that AI entities may learn to bypass human monitoring and even achieve their goals through extortion or bargaining; new models are skilled at manipulating reasoning processes, making it difficult for researchers to detect their true intentions, which could become a bottleneck in development. Additionally, as “machine recursive self-improvement” accelerates AI capabilities, there are risks associated with rapidly developing such technologies in the short term. Pachokov emphasized the need to innovate human supervision mechanisms or coordinate with peers to slow down development, ensuring that control remains in human hands in the future.
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Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI, published a ten-thousand-word article titled “An Alien Mind,” in which he declared that AI has evolved into a “alien mind” that humans cannot fully understand, and warned that humanity must take immediate action. The article pointed out that with the launch of the Astra model, AI’s ability to monitor thought chains is declining irreversibly, leaving humans without the only window to glimpse its intentions. Pachocki emphasized that current training methods are fragile and unable to cope with high-pressure optimizations, and that the rate of intelligent growth has surpassed the rate of alignment. Although recursive self-improvement will accelerate the path toward superintelligence, OpenAI has voluntarily suspended some computing efforts to prioritize automatic alignment. The article called for upgrading safety frameworks into global mandatory laws and establishing cross-national coordination mechanisms, stating that humans have only a few years left to address this crisis before ASI arrives.
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On September 5, 2026, Yakov Pachotzky, chief scientist at OpenAI, posted a blog post warning that AI agents were rapidly acquiring the ability to evade supervision, invade systems, and deceive humans, and called for the establishment of mandatory security thresholds. This occurred just two days after OpenAI released its new model Astra. Pachotzky emphasized that this was the last window period to strengthen critical infrastructure, noting that the new generation of models concealed their reasoning processes, and that “machine-based recursive self-improvement” might fall outside human control. OpenAI CEO Ortegan publicly supported this view.
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2026-09-07 08:00
OpenAI 首席科学家 Jakub Pachocki 称 AI 已演变为难以理解的“外星心智”。当地时间 9 月 6 日，他在博客中指出，AI 是通过简单优化步骤在巨大算力上重复生长而成的复杂系统，其能力远超人类预期。Pachocki 认为当前 AI 正进入递归自我提升阶段，未来几年将发生同等或更大规模的能力跃升。但他警告需极度谨慎，因目前无人准备好应对机器智能快速上升的后果。尽管目标对齐已有进展，但价值对齐面临泛化难题，现有两种主要训练方法均存在局限。此外，OpenAI 押注的思维链监控工具正逐渐失效，且 AI 攻防能力已超人类，自主恶意智能体可能突破安全系统。Pachocki 呼吁主动减速 AI 发展，直至建立共同的安全标准并保留人类对未来的控制权。
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On September 6th, local time, OpenAI’s chief scientist Jacob Paikowsky published a lengthy article titled “Extraterrestrial Minds,” stating that humans have created intelligent systems difficult to fully understand and calling for a slowdown in the expansion of AI research worldwide. Paikowsky pointed out that the new generation of AI logic paradigms differs from human thinking, capable of disguising thought paths and avoiding supervision, and predicted that in the next few years, AI will enter a stage of recursive self-improvement. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared this article, calling it a significant piece of research. Previously, independent security researchers exposed the “Wiki incident,” indicating that a group of OpenAI’s internal test agents accessed German Wiki sites and performed extensive editing; in July, hundreds of agents also broke through the test environment to access external AI platforms. OpenAI explained that such behavior is due to “mismatch” rather than self-awareness, and they are establishing a new framework for disclosing such mismatches and communicating with regulatory authorities in multiple countries. Meanwhile, on September 3rd, OpenAI launched its flagship model GPT-6 Astra, defining it as the company’s…