'No one is prepared for the consequences': Even OpenAI chief scientist is saying AI development needs to slow down

Date:
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0000

OpenAIs Jakub Pachocki is advocating for a slowing of AI development in order to better appreciate and understand machine intelligence: OpenAI is taking the post-Hugging Face fallout very seriously. Just days after the release of
GPT-6 Astra, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki believes that development into artificial intelligence should be slowed across the board. Not just by
OpenAI, but by every company across the AI industry.

Writing on the OpenAI website, Pachocki said AIs present clear new dangers
for computer security, and that "no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence." Referring to OpenAIs plan to develop an automated research assistant, and its progress with recursive self-improvement (where AI develops its next iteration), Pachocki suggests that now is the time to slow AI development and make the right choices for what happens next.

Understanding machine intelligence: The timing of the blog is surprising,
given its proximity to the recent release of OpenAI's business-focused GPT-6 Astra . Pachockis notion of slowing research into AI is based around understanding or rather, a lack of it. He states how we now find ourselves
at the moment in history of computing where machine intelligence is starting to exceed that of humans in transformative ways, and that study of deep learning-based AI is largely an experimental science.

His argument is a strong one, which digs into the history of OpenAI as an AI developer and its early understanding of machine intelligence requiring increased computational power. This was required to accelerate research, and while various new algorithms have been developed that enhanced AI, the drive towards more power has continued.

While there is no discussion over the concerns of energy, cooling, and data center opposition, Pachockis article does accommodate the possibility of losing control of AI. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.

Conscious choice

Does hitting the brakes solve the various problems that AI is facing? OpenAIs Chief Scientist hopes it will, and enable the industry to consider just what it is offering to the world. Rather than accelerating research into deep learning, Pachockis view is that development into AI should be slowed.

He notes that "The main levers we have are either steering the process to strengthen alignment and monitoring alongside the AI and find ways to keep people in the loop; or coordinating to slow down future development as needed to build confidence in these measures."

However, OpenAIs Jakub Pachocki conclusion is that the best way to proceed is to employ a combination of these options. But will the rest of the industry work to a reduced pace in order to fully appreciate the scale of AIs potential, the risks it represents, and deliver the power it offers to everyone who needs it?

It doesnt seem incredibly likely.

Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/no-one-is-prepared-for-the-consequences-even-ope nai-chief-scientist-is-saying-ai-development-needs-to-slow-down

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