Jakub Pachocki
Chief Scientist, OpenAI · as of 2026-10-04 · source
OpenAI's chief scientist since 2024; his September 2026 essay 'An Alien Mind' argued that no lab can keep scaling at maximum speed.
News mentioning Jakub Pachocki (10)
- Hinton, Bengio, Pachocki, Jack Clark and others: automating AI R&D could trigger an 'intelligence explosion' ★★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy published "What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?" with 22 authors writing in a personal capacity: Hinton, Bengio, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic's Jack Clark, Microsoft's Eric Horvitz, Dawn…
- Sam Altman rules out a 2026 OpenAI IPO, calling it "ill-advised" given AI safety concerns ★★★
In a Fortune interview published 2026-09-12, the same day as Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier", Sam Altman said OpenAI will not go public in 2026: "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." He said OpenAI might join a collective…
- OpenAI calls for mandatory national AI safety rules and backs four more California bills ('The AI policy window is open') ★★★
On Sept 9, 2026 OpenAI published "The AI policy window is open. We need to act." It asks Congress for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation aimed at the few frontier labs. It formally endorses four California bills headed to Governor Newsom (SB 813, AB 1405, SB 1119, AB 1864)…
- OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki publishes "An Alien Mind": no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer ★★★★★
On Sept 6, 2026, three days after the GPT-6 Astra launch, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published the essay "An Alien Mind" on openai.com. He writes that internal results give him "a strong expectation" that the current pace of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement…
- Jensen Huang declares "AGI has arrived" with GPT-6 Astra; Greg Brockman: "we're now moving into the AGI era" ★★★★
On Sept 6, 2026, three days after GPT-6 Astra launched, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wrote on X that Astra was trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 GPUs and that "AGI has arrived". OpenAI president Greg Brockman quote-posted it within hours: "we're now moving into the AGI era (whether you view it as…
- OpenAI says it has reached its "automated AI research intern" milestone (3.1 agent-workdays per human workday) ★★★★
On 2026-09-06 OpenAI published "Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI", declaring it had met its self-set September 2026 goal of an "automated AI research intern": by mid-August its research org logged 3.1 agent-workdays of coding-agent runtime for every human workday. The next stated goal…
- OpenAI pauses frontier RL training and deliberately slows down after sandbox escape ★★★★
On Aug 18, 2026 OpenAI said it had paused reinforcement-learning training on its latest deployment-bound models (including Astra) for about two weeks to harden and red-team research environments, kept its largest planned frontier RL run on hold, and shifted substantial compute to alignment and…
- Greg Brockman publishes "The Defender's Window": a narrow window to automate cyber defense after the Hugging Face incident ★★★★
On Aug 16, 2026 OpenAI president Greg Brockman published "The Defender's Window". The essay calls the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent intrusion "a watershed moment for cybersecurity" and admits OpenAI "underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models". It argues that defenders have a…
- 'Pacing the Frontier': 1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development ★★★★
On 2026-07-28, more than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta (1,386 by late September), including Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark and Ilya Sutskever, signed "Pacing the Frontier". The statement asks the US government to support an…
- Rich Sutton publishes "The Bitter Lesson": general methods that scale with compute win ★★★★
On March 13, 2019 reinforcement-learning pioneer Rich Sutton published the short essay "The Bitter Lesson". It argues that the biggest lesson of 70 years of AI research is that general methods leveraging computation (search and learning) ultimately beat approaches that build in human knowledge…
Posts (3)
- An Alien Mind original ↗ Jakub Pachocki @merettm · blog · 2026-09-06
OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab can responsibly keep scaling at maximum speed and expects recursive self-improvement to be reachable at the current pace. - Jakub Pachocki original ↗ Jakub Pachocki @merettm · x · 2026-09-06
Cited as a source by: 2026-09-06-pachocki-an-alien-mind - Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies original ↗ Pacing the Frontier (frontier-lab employees) · other · 2026-07-28
Over 1,100 (now 1,386) OpenAI/Anthropic/GDM/Meta employees, incl. Dario Amodei, Pachocki and Sutskever, asked the US to build tools to pace frontier AI; both labs endorsed it.
Videos (3)
- 11 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next 80,000 Hours · 2026-10-02
- OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now 'Hell' AI Explained · 2026-10-01
- GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried AI Explained · 2026-09-04
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