“We need coordination to be able to approach future capability increases with an appropriate degree of caution and humility, and we need it yesterday.”
Responding to Hubinger's Coxon-related warning, Wolfe calls the pace of AI development terrifying and urges urgent coordination between companies and countries. He also praises costly recent actions by OpenAI and does not supply an extinction probability.
- Speaker
- Jason Wolfe
- Capacity
- Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI working on alignment and model behavior, according to his MATS mentor biography; personal account, no claimed institutional authority in the post.
- Observed
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Anthropic, OpenAI
- Classification rationale
- Supports urgent coordination while crediting OpenAI's recent precautions.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Wolfe says he does not know his probability for literal extinction but sees multiple ways AI could go poorly. The included quoted post is Hubinger's acknowledgement of risk and partial defense of Anthropic.
After the quotation
Wolfe says he is heartened by costly actions OpenAI has recently taken, but argues that no single company or country can solve the problem alone.
Evidence
Complete source record
Full primary public post and available surrounding thread. Related context: https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/wolfe https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126 Speaker and position scope are explained in the linked event.