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A chief scientist writes that AI is grown more than designed

development2026-09-07

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Jakub Pachocki's An Alien Mind expects the pace to reach recursive self-improvement, calls AI grown more than designed, warns that chain-of-thought monitoring is fading, and concedes no lab can yet scale safely at full speed, asking for mandated safety bars, voluntary slowdowns and international coordination.

Reporting date: 2026-09-07 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 7, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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OpenAI

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A chief scientist writes that AI is grown more than designed
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-07
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-07-an-alien-mind
Claim: Jakub Pachocki's An Alien Mind expects the pace to reach recursive self-improvement, calls AI grown more than designed, warns that chain-of-thought monitoring is fading, and concedes no lab can yet scale safely at full speed, asking for mandated safety bars, voluntary slowdowns and international coordination.
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- Welcome to September 7, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-7-2026
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