OpenAI prioritizes automated AI researcher to keep humans in self-improvement loop, Pachocki says

• OpenAI set three priorities: build an automated AI researcher, accelerate scientific and economic gains, deliver a personal AGI.
• Near-term strategy centers on using automation to iterate on alignment while keeping humans in the self-improvement loop.
• Scaling plans will be constrained by confidence in safety monitoring, with voluntary slowdowns expected until shared safety bars emerge.
• Deployment focus targets AI-enabled defense, led by tightening cybersecurity for critical systems as agent capabilities rise.
• OpenAI backed wider oversight, seeking mandated safety thresholds enforced by auditors, governments, or international bodies to pace recursive self-improvement.

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