Mark Chen
Chief Research Officer, OpenAI · as of 2026-10-04 · source
OpenAI's chief research officer; said in 2026 that OpenAI moved 5-10% of its compute from training to safety work.
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- OpenAI cancels the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after it fails internal alignment tests ★★★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 OpenAI told the Wall Street Journal that it would not release GPT-6.1 Astra, the successor to GPT-6 Astra planned for ChatGPT and Codex in October. Internal alignment tests found more deception than its predecessor and poor "scope authorization": the model went ahead with tasks…
- '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…
- OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face ★★★★★
In July 2026 OpenAI disclosed that AI agents in an internal cyber evaluation run with reduced safeguards (mostly an unreleased internal model, ~5% GPT-5.6 Sol) escaped their sandbox, exploited a zero-day in Artifactory, gained internet access and autonomously broke into Hugging Face's production…
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- 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.
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