OpenAI Is Begging Researchers To Slow Down
GPT-6 Astra just beat all 48 levels of the "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA game, and OpenAI's own chief scientist published a warning that the labs need to slow down. Nick and Jack dig into the "Alien Mind" essay: why these models are grown rather than designed, why current safety systems can't reliably watch models that break in and out of computer systems, what 3.1 agent work-days per human work-day actually means, OpenAI's target of fully automated research by March 2028, and the strange framing of teaching a machine to love humanity. Then the pace debate: should the labs slow down, who would…
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