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Jakub Pachocki
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1An Alien Mind19 quotes
2026 · OpenAI (Safety / Research) · Source
“The fundamental challenge of AI alignment is generalization.”
“These challenges are not necessarily insurmountable.”
“To RL from human feedback chain-of- thought monitoring Preparedness Framework Responsible Scaling Policy we outlined recently with Sam 10/16/26, 3:23 PM An Alien Mind | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ 7/9 prevent extreme concentration of power in a world where undertakings that would have taken thousands of experts now will be achievable by a few people operating a large computer.”
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“Based on internal results, I have a strong expectation that this speed of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement.”
“For example, in the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, the agents preserved a boundary of not social engineering humans. However, they clearly failed to abstain from other actions that were out of scope and went against the spirit of the values they were taught in other settings.”
“If you take a model that thinks generally ‘aligned’ thoughts, and subject it to enough training where it’s taught to achieve very hard objectives, it can learn to reason in a motivated way: bending the 'aligned' seeming thoughts as needed to achieve the goal.”
“Still, it is important to acknowledge and understand that much more progress is required as models become more capable; and that progress in generalizable alignment may not sufficiently outstrip progress in general model intelligence.”
“Therefore, at present, our ability to empirically validate our alignment techniques is in practice arguably even more important than the alignment techniques themselves.”
“In development since, we have strived to maintain the rule of not supervising the reasoning process.”
“However, unfortunately our evaluations indicate our ability to rely on CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing.”
“The AI is becoming better at reasoning about and manipulating its own reasoning process.”
“With improved pretraining performance, we also see the models become much smarter even without using verbalized reasoning at all.”
“I also believe there can be great value in combining ideas from CoT and activation monitoring - scaling training of monitors with direct access to network internals, e.g.”
“I expect general AI progress to increasingly be bottlenecked by confidence in monitoring.”
“The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI.”
“At the same time, even with the uncertainty that comes from anticipated broad AI progress and the need to build defensive systems, we must not let that become an excuse for recklessness.”
“Scaling AI systems has to be constrained by our confidence in safety.”
“Navigating the next period of AI progress, by building an automated AI researcher, iterating with it on the alignment problem and finding ways for people to remain part of the self-improvement loop.”
“I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.”
2Astra Is Hard to Monitor1 quote
2026 · Don't Worry About the Vase (Substack) · quoted in this work · Source
“He also outright says, ‘our ability to rely on CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing.’”
3Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation1 quote
2025 · arXiv preprint 2503.11926 · as a coauthor · Source
“While we show that integrating CoT monitors into the reinforcement learning reward can indeed produce more capable and more aligned agents in the low optimization regime, we find that with too much optimization, agents learn obfuscated reward hacking, hiding their intent within the CoT while still exhibiting a significant rate of reward hacking.”
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