Jason Wolfe
Role at the time: 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.
Statement summary
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.
“We need coordination to be able to approach future capability increases with an appropriate degree of caution and humility, and we need it yesterday.”
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.
Why we used this label
Supports urgent coordination while crediting OpenAI's recent precautions.