A senior OpenAI researcher says slowing frontier AI isn’t the answer to preventing an AI apocalypse.
Daniel Selsam, a researcher who has been with OpenAI for almost five years and worked on its model training, wrote in a public statement on Monday that he has become “extremely concerned” about how far the models have come and the risks they can pose in the future.
He said that “merely pacing the frontier more carefully will not adequately limit the long-term risk,” although he was encouraged by the proposal.
Pacing the frontier is a phrase that top AI chiefs like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have been using of late when…
