Expert takes Sep 8, 2026

Today · published September 7

His conclusion after reading OpenAI's chief scientist's essay runs opposite to ours from September 7: Pachocki is more optimistic than most.

On September 7 Zvi wrote, word for word: "Jakub Pachocki flat out says that no one is at a place where it would be responsible to continue scaling at maximum speed much longer, unless alignment and monitorability can be improved", and "The ultimate conclusion is that Jakub is more optimistic here than many others, about the potential to sustain CoT monitorability for an extended period if we invest in that ability" (thezvi, 2026-09-07). CoT is chain of thought, the reasoning a model writes out step by step before it answers.