OpenAI’s chief scientist sees recursive self-improvement approaching
The uncomfortable part is not that reasoning models are getting better. OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says he expects today’s pace of progress could continue into recursive self-improvement, with systems increasingly helping drive their own development. That raises the bar beyond model-level alignment: OpenAI may need to withhold scaling unilaterally, while governments coordinate safeguards for systems whose capabilities and risks are moving faster than institutions.