OpenAI · Jakub Pachocki · 2026-09-06
An Alien Mind
“Based on internal results, I have a strong expectation that this speed of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement.”
- Who
- OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki
- Date
- 2026-09-06 Date from OpenAI's own RSS feed. The author is named in OpenAI's standards post, which links this essay to Jakub Pachocki.
- Evidence
- statement only about evidence levels
- Replication
- None recorded
- Checked
- 2026-10-15, against the source page
- Links
- Source
Also on the page
- Among the three north stars the essay sets out: "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".
- He also writes: "I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established."