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Mark Chen

OpenAI's chief research officer, who confirmed the lab's goal is recursive self-improvement toward an automated scientist.

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Mark Chen is OpenAI’s chief research officer. He enters the corpus by confirming that the goal is now recursive self-improvement to create an automated scientist, an explicit statement of the objective that Altman had described as already running in production; he reappears in September insisting that the AGI era must also be the alignment era.

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