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AGI Dreams Podcast – September 08, 2026
OpenAI Taps the Brakes
In this episode:
OpenAI Taps the Brakes — OpenAI chief scientist Pachocki warns no lab has solved alignment sufficiently to keep scaling at maximum speed, distinguishing goal from value alignment failures. Altman confirms OpenAI delayed a frontier RL run and shifted resources to alignment after observing misalignment in training samples and hitting cyber-critical thresholds.
The Defender's Window Is Open — Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.3 release spawned abliterated variants with zero refusals on dangerous benchmarks, giving roughly a year before Astra-class…
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