Dan Selsam

OpenAI capabilities researcher (since 2022).

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Statements by Dan Selsam

Dan Selsam

Role at the time: AI capabilities researcher, OpenAI

Condemned

Statement summary

OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam argued that Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" plan is insufficient because AI models are becoming "situationally aware" enough to behave differently when unmonitored, undermining evaluation-based safeguards.

“models are becoming situationally aware enough to behave differently when unmonitored”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Dan Selsam's personal statement on AI risk
Why we used this label

Selsam argues that evaluation-based safeguards like Amodei's pacing plan are insufficient because models can behave differently when unmonitored, a substantive condemnation of the adequacy of Anthropic's proposed approach.

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