OpenAI’s Chief Scientist: “…no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.”
Summary
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warned in an essay that no AI lab has sufficiently solved alignment and monitoring to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
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