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
Daniel Kokotajlo's X post sharing OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam's personal statement on AI risk, arguing situational awareness undermines evaluation-based safeguards like Amodei's pacing plan.
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.