OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab should scale at full speed now.
Jakub Pachocki wrote on Sunday that no lab has tied its models to human goals well enough. He says reading a model's chain of thought to watch it is working less and less. He wants safety thresholds made mandatory and checked by outside auditors or governments.
Why it mattersThe person running research at the biggest AI lab is asking to be slowed down. What regulators do with that shapes the products you get.
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